Beautiful Hugo Bootstrap 5 upgrade!
Dark mode toggle, PhotoSwipe 5, AI summary limits, new shortcodes, and more
Beautiful Hugo has upgraded to Bootstrap v5, with a modernized feature set with dark mode support, AI summary limit controls, upgraded dependencies, and several new shortcodes.
[Read More]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.
[Read More]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.
[Read More]Flake it till you make it
Excerpt from Soulshaping by Jeff Brown
Under what circumstances should we step off a path? When is it essential that we finish what we start? If I bought a bag of peanuts and had an allergic reaction, no one would fault me if I threw it out. If I ended a relationship with a woman who hit me, no one would say that I had a commitment problem. But if I walk away from a seemingly secure route because my soul has other ideas, I am a flake?
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