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.

Live Demo | Zerostatic Themes

Theme features

Content Types

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

CSS

• SCSS (Hugo Pipelines)
• Responsive design
• Bootstrap 4.4 grid and media queries only
• Uncomment

  @import 'bootstrap/bootstrap';

  in

  style.scss

  to use the entire Bootstrap framework

Speed

• 100/100 Google Lighthouse speed score
• Under 50KB without images or 80KB with images and illustrations ⚡
• No jQuery, only a tiny bit of vanilla Javascript for the mobile menu.

SEO

• 100/100 Google Lighthouse SEO score
• Google analytics configured in

  config.toml

• Configure GID using env variable HUGOGOOGLEANALYTICS_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 HTML document structure

Accessibility

• 100/100 Google Lighthouse accessibility score
• Accessible colors, headings and link text (by design)
• Attention has been paid to using correct contrast, font sizes etc
• Attention has been paid to ensuring comfortable hit zones and link sizing on mobile

Menu

• Responsive menu managed in

  config.toml

• Animated hamburger menu on mobile

Content

• Robust example content included
• Royalty free illustrations included

Templating

• No hardcoded content in the layouts
• Plenty of examples of using

  range

  and

  where

  to loop over various sections/content types
• Examples of

  range

  by Param
• Examples of using data content (data/contact.yaml and data/features.json)
• Example of passing .Site . (context) and custom variables to partials - see

  layouts/page/contact.html

  -

  {{ partial "call.html" (dict "site" .Site "context" . "show_button" "false") }}

• Examples of injecting javascript files on a per page basis (see services/single.html)
• Set

  body

  classes from individual layouts - useful for CSS styling.
• Example of using Hugo custom

  layout

  for the contact page

Hugo 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 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 work.

To check your version of Hugo, run:

hugo version

This will output the currently installed version of Hugo. Make sure you see

/extended

Hugo Static Site Generator v0.51/extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate: unknown

/extended

Theme Installation

Download, fork or clone this repo, it's ready to go.

hugo

hugo server

Deployment

Stackbit

Use Stackbit to deploy this theme and connect any headless CMS (Forestry, NetlifyCMS, Sanity, Contentful, DatoCMS) - It's actually really amazing. This theme contains a valid and tested

stackbit.yaml

Netlify

Use Netlify to deploy this theme. This theme contains a valid and tested

netlify.toml

Configuring Theme

Copy your Google Analytics id into the

config.toml

Google Analytics

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

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.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"

Override meta tags on a per layout 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

{{ define "meta_tags }}

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

{{ define "meta_tags" }}
    
{{ end }}
{{ define main }}
...

Credits

• Beautiful royalty free Illustrations by Icons8 - https://icons8.com/illustrations/style--pixeltrue

License

This theme is open source under the MIT license. If you fork or copy this theme you must leave me as the original author in the LICENSE file (on line 3 where I am listed as the author). Really, I just don't want people copying this theme and then saying it's their theme, because I put a lot of work into my themes, thanks!