Spark Hugo Theme

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Hugo theme

Overview

Spark 2 is the second version of the Spark theme built on Hugo v0.80+. It is a dark theme with a minimalistic design and is responsive, making it suitable for researchers, PhD candidates, personal websites, and bloggers. The theme uses technologies such as Tailwind CSS, Vue.js, Algolia, Webpack, Font Awesome, TypeScript, and Gulp. It also supports features like Disqus comments, Google Ads (for blogs), Google Analytics with event tracking, custom sitemap with images support, structured data for website and blogs, blog pagination and categories, AMP support, and more.

Features

  • Responsive design using UiKit v3
  • Suitable for researchers, PhD candidates, personal websites, and bloggers
  • Disqus support for comments
  • Google Ads support (Only for blogs) and AMP blogs
  • Google Analytics support with event tracking
  • Uses SASS/SCSS, no NodeJS needed
  • Can change the color of the theme
  • Education and experience data files
  • Search index JSON file (with Algolia support)
  • Custom sitemap with images support, custom stylesheet, priority, and change frequency
  • Structured data for website and blogs
  • Blog pagination and categories
  • Support for external links in blog
  • AMP support for blog contents
  • SEO optimization with custom schemas
  • Uses FiraCode with font ligatures for code block
  • Option to convert JS/CSS to inline code
  • Ability to add a global banner to HTML page
  • Support for Cloudflare insights
  • Customized sponsor link
  • Support for adding videos using video.js
  • Sign-up user can be added to the newsletter
  • Added new alert message
  • Support for no indexing of pages

Summary

Spark 2 is a responsive, dark theme with a minimalistic design built on Hugo v0.80+. It offers various features such as Disqus comments, Google Ads support (for blogs), Google Analytics with event tracking, custom sitemap with images support, structured data for websites and blogs, AMP support, and more. The theme is easy to install and configure, making it suitable for researchers, PhD candidates, personal websites, and bloggers.