Hugo Serif Theme

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

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Features

Content Types - Services (Markdown) - Team (Markdown) - Features (Data)

CSS - SCSS (Hugo Pipelines) - Full Responsive design - Bootstrap 4.4 grid and media queries only - Uncomment

@import 'bootstrap/bootstrap';

style.scss

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 - 100/100 Google Lighthouse accessibility score - Configure Google Analytics in

config.toml

HUGO_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID

config.toml

Menu - Responsive menu managed in

config.toml

Content - Robust example content included - Royalty free illustrations included

Code - No hardcoded content in the layouts - Plenty of examples of using

range

where

range

data/contact.yaml

data/features.json

layouts/page/contact.html

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

services/single.html

body

layout

Installation

1. Install Hugo

To use this theme you will first need to have Hugo installed. Please follow the official installation guide

⚠️ Note: Check your Hugo version - Hugo Extended is required!

This theme uses Hugo Pipes to compile SCSS and minify assets which means if you not using the Hugo extended version this theme will not work. To check your version of Hugo, run

hugo version

2. Create a new Hugo site

This will create a fresh Hugo site in the folder

mynewsite

hugo new site mynewsite

3. Install the theme

Download or git clone this theme into the sites themes folder

mynewsite/themes

mynewsite/themes/hugo-serif-theme

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

4. Copy the example content

Copy the entire contents of the

mynewsite/themes/hugo-serif-theme/exampleSite/

mynewsite/

mynewsite

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

5. Update config.toml

After you copy the

config.toml

baseURL

themesDir

theme

mynewsite/config.toml

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

6. 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

Deployment

Stackbit

Use Stackbit to deploy this theme. 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

Logo

You can edit the logo from the

config.toml

# config.toml

  [params.logo]
    mobile = "images/logo/logo-mobile.svg"
    mobile_height = "36px"
    desktop = "images/logo/logo.svg"
    desktop_height = "36px"
    alt = "Serif - A Hugo Business Theme"

Fonts

This theme uses Google fonts. You can change the font snippet in

layouts/partials/google-fonts.html

scss/style.scss

// scss/style.scss

// Fonts
$font-family-base: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, -apple-system;
$font-family-heading: 'Playfair Display', serif, -apple-system; 

Colors

You can edit the themes primary, secondary and neutral colors in

scss/style.scss

scss/_bootstrap-variables.scss

// scss/style.scss

// Colors
$primary: #f24088;
$secondary: #f88379;
$black: #2f2f41;
$white: #ffffff;
$white-offset: #f6f7ff;
$steel: #5C5A5A;

Hero Image

List pages such as the homepage, services and team can have a Hero image.

# content/_index.md 
---
intro_image: "https://source.unsplash.com/wOGhHamMqLc"
intro_image_absolute: false
intro_image_hide_on_mobile: true
---

While this themes default content uses illustrations, its easy to change the image to a photo and it will still look great.

the front-matter field

intro_image_absolute: true

position: absolute

content/team/_index.md

Google Analytics

Put your Google Analytics ID in the

google_analytics_id

config.toml

hugo server

# config.toml

[params]
  google_analytics_id = "UA-XXX-1"
  google_tag_manager_id = ""

You can also set the Google Analytics ID using a Netlify environment variable

HUGO_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID

Meta tags

A pages

title

description

image

By default a pages

title

config.toml

 {{ block "title" . }}{{ if .Params.meta_title }}{{ .Params.meta_title }}{{ else }}{{ .Title }} - {{ .Site.Title }}{{ end }}{{ end }}

You can override the

meta_title

content/_index.md

Set your twitter info to ensure twitter social previews work correctly.

  # config.toml

  [params.seo]
    meta_twitter_site = "@zerostaticio"
    meta_twitter_creator = "@zerostaticio"

License & Credits

This theme is open source under the MIT license.

Please don't create ports of this theme without asking me. Yes this theme is open-source but I've had several people "port" this theme (with only minor changes) and then advertise the theme as their own. Then they don't update it and it starts to get old and break etc. Now lots of people are finding these old crappy versions of the theme.

• Beautiful royalty free Illustrations by Icons8 - https://icons8.com/illustrations/style--pixeltrue
• Stock images by Unsplash - https://unsplash.com/
• Feature icons by Noun Project - https://thenounproject.com/

Other Versions

• Jekyll Serif Theme (official)
• Gatsby Serif Theme (official)