Hugo Serif Theme

Serif is a modern business theme for Hugo. It contains content types for the archetypical business website. The theme is fully responsive, blazing fast and artfully illustrated.

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Theme features

Content Types

• Services (Markdown)
• Team (Markdown)
• Features (Data)

CSS

• SCSS (Hugo Pipelines)
• Responsive design
• Bootstrap 4.3 grid and media queries only

Speed

• 100/100 Google Lighthouse speed score
• Under 30KB without images or 80KB with images and illustrations ⚡
• No jQuery, only a tiny bit of vanilla Javascript for the mobile menu.

SEO

• Google analytics configured in config.toml
• Configure GID using env variable HUGO_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID, compatible with Netlify.
• Configure meta tags and OG meta tags for the homepage in config.toml
• Override any meta tags on a per page basis
• Semantic document structure
• Accessible colors, headings and link text

Menu

• Responsive menu managed in config.toml

Content

• Robust example content included
• Royalty free illustrations included
• Set body classes on a per template basis

Templating

• Plenty of examples of using range and where to loop over various content types
• Examples of injecting javascript files on a per page basis (see services/single.html)

Stackbit Deploy

This theme is is ready to import into Stackbit. This will deploy the site to Netlify and optionally you can select a headless CMS so you can edit the content without ever touching the code.

Installation

To use this theme you will need to have Hugo installed. If you don't already have Hugo installed please follow the official installation guide

Check Hugo version (Hugo 0.51+ Extended is required)

This theme uses Hugo Pipes to compile SCSS and minify assets. Please make sure you have the Hugo Extended version installed. If you are not using the extended version this theme will not not compile.

To check your version of Hugo, run:

hugo version

This will output the currently installed version of Hugo. Make sure you see /extended after the version number, for example Hugo Static Site Generator v0.51/extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate: unknown You do not need to use version v0.51 specifically, you can use any version of Hugo above 0.51. It just needs to have the /extended part

Create a new Hugo site

hugo new site mynewsite

This will create a fresh Hugo site in the folder mynewsite.

Install theme

Copy or git clone this theme into the sites themes folder mynewsite/themes

Install with Git

cd mynewsite
git clone https://github.com/jugglerx/hugo-serif-theme.git themes/hugo-serif-theme

Install from .zip file

You can download the .zip file located here https://github.com/JugglerX/hugo-serif-theme/archive/master.zip.

Extract the downloaded .zip inside the themes folder. Rename the extracted folder from hugo-serif-theme-master -> hugo-serif-theme. You should end up with the following folder structure mynewsite/themes/hugo-serif-theme

Add example content

Copy the entire contents of the mynewsite/themes/hugo-serif-theme/exampleSite/ folder to root folder of your Hugo site, ie mynewsite/

To copy the files using terminal, make sure you are still in the projects root, ie the mynewsite folder.

cp -a themes/hugo-serif-theme/exampleSite/. .

Update config.toml

After you copy the config.toml into the root folder of your Hugo site you will need to update the baseURL, themesDir and theme values in mynewsite/config.toml

baseURL = "/"
themesDir = "themes"
theme = "hugo-serif-theme"

Run Hugo

After installing the theme for the first time, generate the Hugo site.

You run this command from the root folder of your Hugo site ie mynewsite/

hugo

For local development run Hugo's built-in local server.

hugo server

Now enter localhost:1313 in the address bar of your browser.

Configuring theme features

Homepage meta tags

Often a homepage requires special meta tags such as a meta description or og meta data for twitter, facebook etc. You can configure these values in the config.toml

// config.toml
[params]
  google_analytics_id=""

  [params.homepage_meta_tags]
    meta_description = "a description of your website."
    meta_og_title = "My Theme"
    meta_og_type = "website"
    meta_og_url = "https://www.mywebsite.com"
    meta_og_image = "https://www.mywebsite.com/images/tn.png"
    meta_og_description = "a description of your website."
    meta_twitter_card = "summary"
    meta_twitter_site = "@mytwitterhandle"
    meta_twitter_creator = "@mytwitterhandle"

Set meta tags on a per template/page basis

You can set meta tags on a per template basis using a block. For example, you might want to write a custom meta description for the /services page. You can insert any valid HTML meta data inside the {{ define "meta_tags }} block at the top of a template.

// layouts/services/list.html
...

{{ define "meta_tags" }}
    <meta name="description" content="We offer a variety of services in the finance industry" />
{{ end }}

{{ define main }}
...

Credits

• Beautiful royalty free Illustrations by https://undraw.co/