Hugo Winston Theme

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A minimal and bold blog theme for Hugo

Overview:

The Hugo Winston theme is a minimalist blogging theme that offers a bold and clean design. It is designed for use with the Hugo static site generator and offers a variety of features to enhance the blogging experience. The theme is fully responsive, ensuring that it looks great on all devices. It also has excellent performance scores on Google Lighthouse, making it a fast and optimized choice for a blog. The theme includes features such as support for Markdown posts and basic pages, integration with Google Analytics, and automatic generation of meta data for SEO purposes.

Features:

  • Posts (Markdown): The theme supports writing blog posts using Markdown, making it easy to create and format content.
  • Basic Page (Markdown): In addition to blog posts, the theme also supports basic pages, allowing you to create static pages with Markdown.
  • SCSS (Hugo Pipelines): The theme uses SCSS (Sassy CSS) and Hugo Pipelines to compile and minify assets, providing a streamlined and optimized CSS workflow.
  • Responsive design: The theme is fully responsive, ensuring that your blog looks great on all devices, including desktops, tablets, and mobile phones.
  • 100/100 Google Lighthouse speed score: The theme has been optimized for performance and achieves a perfect score on Google Lighthouse's speed test, ensuring fast loading times for your blog.
  • 100/100 Google Lighthouse SEO score: The theme includes features to help improve SEO, such as automatically generated title, meta description, and meta tags for every page.
  • 100/100 Google Lighthouse accessibility score: Accessibility is important, and the Hugo Winston theme meets the highest standards with a perfect accessibility score on Google Lighthouse.
  • Google analytics configured in config.toml: The theme includes pre-configured integration with Google Analytics, making it easy to track and analyze the traffic to your blog.
  • Configure GID using env variable HUGO_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID, compatible with Netlify: To further customize the Google Analytics integration, you can configure the Google Analytics ID using the environment variable HUGO_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID, which is compatible with hosting platforms like Netlify.
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Hugo

Hugo is an open-source static site generator that features fast build times, flexible themes, support for multiple content formats, multilingual websites, live reloading, and an active community. It allows developers to easily create and deploy SEO-friendly and mobile-responsive websites.

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Blog

Blog websites feature posts written by one or more authors, organized by categories and tags, with a section for comments and archives sorted by date or topic. Additional features may include search bar, social media sharing, subscription or RSS feed, about and contact pages, and visual content.

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Netlify

Netlify is a cloud-based web development platform that provides a range of tools and services to help developers build, deploy, and manage modern web applications. It offers features such as continuous deployment, serverless functions, and CDN hosting, making it an ideal platform for building fast, scalable, and secure websites.