Congo
A powerful, lightweight theme for Hugo built with Tailwind CSS.
Overview
Congo is a powerful and lightweight theme for Hugo, designed with a clean and minimalist design that focuses on prioritizing content. It utilizes Tailwind CSS and offers a range of features including multiple color schemes, dark mode, customizable configuration, flexible homepage layouts, multilingual content support, client-side site search, diagrams and visualizations, SEO-friendly design, and more. With extensive documentation and regular updates, Congo is a versatile theme suitable for various Hugo projects.
Features
- Fully responsive layout: Built with Tailwind CSS 3.0, Congo ensures a responsive design that adapts to different devices.
- Multiple color schemes and customization: Choose from pre-defined color schemes or fully customize your own to match your branding or personal preferences.
- Dark mode: Toggle dark mode on or off, or set it to auto-switch based on user preferences.
- Highly customizable configuration: Personalize and fine-tune various aspects of the theme to meet your specific requirements.
- Multiple homepage layouts: Select from different homepage layouts to showcase your content in different ways.
- Flexible with content types, taxonomies, and menus: Congo seamlessly integrates with different content types, taxonomies, and menus, providing versatility in organizing your website.
- Multilingual content support: Easily create multilingual websites with RTL language support.
- Third-party post linking: Ability to link posts on third-party websites.
- Client-side site search: Powered by Fuse.js, Congo offers a fast and efficient client-side search functionality for your website.
- Diagrams and visualizations: Congo supports the use of Mermaid for creating diagrams and visualizations, adding an interactive and visual element to your content.
- Charts using Chart.js: Embed interactive charts in your content using Chart.js.
- Mathematical notation using KaTeX: Include mathematical equations and notation with ease using KaTeX.
- SVG icons from FontAwesome: Access a vast library of scalable vector icons from FontAwesome.
- Automatic image resizing using Hugo Pipes: Hugo Pipes simplifies the process of resizing images, optimizing performance and loading times.
- Hugo
Hugo is an open-source static site generator that features fast build times, flexible themes, support for multiple content formats, multilingual websites, live reloading, and an active community. It allows developers to easily create and deploy SEO-friendly and mobile-responsive websites.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
- Dark Mode
Dark mode is a user interface option that uses a dark color scheme instead of light. It reduces eye strain and improves visibility in low-light conditions. Implementing dark mode in a website or application involves updating the styles and color palette to support both light and dark modes.
