A Beautiful Hugo Theme

Beautiful Hugo is a feature-rich Hugo theme with dark mode, math support, image galleries, code highlighting, and more.

Layout & Theming

  • Dark/light/auto color scheme
  • Bootstrap 5 responsive design
  • Full-width page option
  • Big image headers
  • Slide-out TOC panel

Shortcodes

  • details — collapsible sections
  • tabs / tab — tabbed content
  • columns — two-column layout
  • gallery / beautifulfigure — images
  • mermaid — diagrams
  • callout — Bootstrap alert boxes
  • include-code — external source files
  • no-ai-summary — exclude from AI summaries

Content Features

  • KaTeX & MathJax math rendering
  • Mermaid diagrams
  • PhotoSwipe image lightbox
  • Select Chroma or Highlight.js syntax highlighting
  • Recipe content type (schema.org Recipe + recipe card)
  • Robot meta tags & AI summary limits
  • “View source” button

Integrations

  • 5 comment systems (Disqus, Giscus, Utterances, Cusdis, Staticman)
  • 42 social icon links
  • GitHub buttons
  • SEO (schema.org, Open Graph, Twitter Cards)
  • 20 languages

Browse the Features menu above for detailed documentation with live examples!

Welcome to Beautiful Hugo

An overview of the theme's features

Welcome to the Beautiful Hugo example site. This theme provides everything you need to build a clean, responsive website with Hugo.

Feature Highlights

  • Dark mode with auto/light/dark switching and system preference detection
  • Bootstrap 5 responsive layout with a collapsible navbar
  • KaTeX math rendering (inline and display)
  • Mermaid diagrams (flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts)
  • PhotoSwipe 5 lightbox for images and galleries
  • Syntax highlighting via Hugo Chroma or client-side Highlight.js
  • Shortcodes: details, columns, tabs, galleries, figures, mermaid
  • 5 comment systems: Disqus, Giscus, Utterances, Cusdis, Staticman
  • 42 social icons in the footer
  • SEO: schema.org JSON-LD, Open Graph, Twitter Cards
  • 19 languages with full i18n support
  • Self-hosted option for all assets (no CDNs required)

Explore the Features

Use the Features dropdown in the navigation bar to browse detailed documentation for each feature, with live examples and configuration snippets.

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Manage robot meta tags an limit AI Overview from using page contents

Purpose

This feature provides two main improvements.

  • Allows the management of <meta name="robots"....> tags using front matter.
  • Allows the management of the meta tags related to SEO AI Summary creation.

Considerations when enabling this feature for AI Summary control

Enabling this features may impact how your site or pages are indexed. This will depend on how the various search engines react to having the AI Overview denied access to page content. I would suggest you read some of the references at the end of this post.

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