Hugo Theme Review

This is more for my benefit than anyone elses.

Requirements

• section sidebar in posts
• search
• avoid npm if possible

Current Theme : LoveIt

LoveIt

Theme Notes: Ace Documentation

Ace Documentation :

Seems nice for technical documentation. Not a general purpose theme.

Theme Notes: Anatole

Anatole

No section list in posts. Does seem to have a projects type of page or post. Has a taxonomy type “series”. Has automatic “related posts”. Has an outdated content warning setting.

Uses a portfolio.yml data file to show projects; but I don’t like the styling of of the information. https://github.com/lxndrblz/anatole/blob/master/exampleSite/data/portfolio.yml

Theme Notes: Doks

Doks

• online demo
• sidebar

Theme Notes: docPort

docPort

• Seems nice for technical documentation.
• Not a general purpose theme.

Theme Notes: Docsy

Docsy

• Seems nice for technical documentation.
• Not a general purpose theme.

Theme Notes: DocuAPI

DocuAPI

• Seems nice for API documentation.
• Not a general purpose theme.

Theme Notes: Geekdoc

Geekdoc

• Seems nice for technical documentation.
• Not a general purpose theme.

Theme Notes: HugoTeX

HugoTeX

• A TeX style blog.
• Nice but no section list in posts.

Theme Notes: Mainroad

Mainroad

• A traditional blog theme.
• ice but no section list in posts.

Theme Notes: risotto

risotto

• ypewriter/console style font.
• o section list in posts.

Theme Notes: Techdoc

Techdoc

• eems nice for technical documentation.
• ot a general purpose theme.

Theme Notes: TeXify

TeXify

• Looks like a TeX document.
• nteresting but not what I want.

Theme Notes: Zdoc

Zdoc

• online demo
• section sidebar in posts

Theme Notes: Zen

Zen

Spent 10 minutes trying to use it for this blog; gave up.

No Live Demos

• Beautiful Hugo
• Codex
• Developer Portfolio
• Hugo Flex
• Minimal
• Noteworthy
• pickles

Not Acceptable

• alaGeek : based on Cocoa Enhanced
• Archie : No section list in posts
• Bare : No section list in posts
• bento : No section list in posts
• cactus : No section list in posts
• Changelog Theme : meant to only display a changelog
• Cocoa : No section list in posts
• Cocoa Enhanced : based on Cocoa
• Coder : No section list in posts
• Coder Portfolio : : based on Coder theme
• DevResume : resume theme
• DoIt : based on LoveIt ; but maintained less recently than LoveIt
• Etch : No section list in posts
• geekblog : appears to require webpack and possible npm to build or run
• GitHub Style : screenshot looks VERY like GitHub ; not what I want
• Hugo Bear Blog : No section list in posts
• Hugo Bootstrap4 : 404 on the themes site
• Hugo Bootstrap v4 Blog : No section list in posts ; traditional blog theme
• hugonews : unmaintained
• Hugo Theme Bootie Docs : unmaintained
• Journal : probably No section list in posts
• KeepIt : No section list in posts
• Kraiklyn : single page documentation theme
• liquorice : unmaintained
• Lynx : only a links page
• Material Design : unmaintained
• mini : No section list in posts
• Minimal Bootstrap Hugo Theme : No section list in posts
• Orbit : unmaintained ; resume theme
• researcher : a resume theme
• Resume : resume theme
• Simple Style : No section list in posts
• Simplicity : unmaintained
• simplog : No section list in posts
• smigle : No section list in posts
• tokiwa : theme based on a color ; do not like how the categories / tags are displayed for a post
• uBlogger : based on LoveIt ; but maintained less recently than LoveIt
• Yinyang : No section list in posts