I built a modern blog/portfolio theme for Hugo, great for personal branding sites and more!

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Hi all,

I recently decided to release the theme behind my personal site to the public: Hugo Liftoff.

It’s a modern blog/portfolio theme catered towards those wanting to jump-start a personal branding site or portfolio in any industry.

This is my first attempt at creating a theme so let me know what you think!

Some notable features:

  • Series taxonomy with next/prev and “in this series” list
  • Nested subsections and submenus
  • Customizable newsletter opt-in with Netlify forms
  • Landing page
  • Many other customizations and SEO-friendly features

While there are still a few kinks to work out, I’m pretty happy with how it came out so far.

If you’re searching for a nice looking theme where you can blog and showcase your projects, definitely give it a shot.

I’m also looking for contributors and plan to keep improving it over time so feel free to fork it and play around!

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Version 2 of Hugo Liftoff is live with a new demo site, better documentation, and a handful of enhancements / fixes.

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I’ve still yet to get my pull request merged into the official themes site. Fingers crossed that will happen soon.

If anyone wants to help contribute I would be really appreciative. Together we can build the best looking and most customizable blog/portfolio Hugo theme for creators!

All feedback welcome.

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Quick update on the development of this theme. I recently improved the design of my personal site and I’m considering updating Hugo Liftoff to use this new design. This version is more minimalistic and content-focused.

Notable changes include:

  • More recent posts on the homepage that you can filter by content subsection (instead of cards that link to each subsection)
  • Light/dark mode toggle using css custom properties
  • Sticky table of contents for posts on desktop
  • More responsive project cards and additional projects on homepage
  • Various other enhancements to the code and responsiveness

I would love some feedback before I put the effort in to port these changes over to the theme itself. Let me know what you think!

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Completely revamped design for Hugo Liftoff theme is now available on Github! (has been for some time, sorry forgot to update :slight_smile:)

I’m really digging this sleek new design for use on my personal site. If you need any combo of the following:

  • Nested content sections with homepage filters
  • Series posts with next/prev
  • Projects
  • Clean design with dark/light mode toggle

Have a look, give it a spin, and let me know what you think!

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Finally got around to adding the theme to the themes showcase. Not sure why I put that off for so long. Hopefully more people who are interested in a portfolio theme can discover it now.

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I’m going to work on making the theme more customizable next. For example, currently you can’t disable projects and just use it as a blog (which some users have requested). Additionally, posts and projects permalinks are hardcoded and can’t be changed safely without overriding a bunch of layouts. Little things like that.