Lightbi

Lightbi is a minimal and clean blog theme for Hugo.

🌍 Demo site
📁 Demo repo
🐛 Bug reports & Issues
💡 Questions & feature requests
📄 Lightbi wiki
🕸️ Websites built with Lightbi

Features

General

• Three sections for content:
  • Blog
  • Notes
  • Collections (Newsletter)
• Responsive, mobile-first design.
• Card based theme.
• Menu location indicator.
• Multilingual support. (with language selector)
• Taxonomies.
• Search option.
• Light/Dark theme (automatic theme switch a/c to browser theme and theme-switch button).
• Google Analytics.
• SEO Friendly.
• Commit SHA on the footer.
• Self Hosted assets for GDPR / EU-DSGVO compliance.
• Beautiful icons with Bootstrap Icons.

Page

• Other Posts suggestion below a post
• Social-Media Share buttons on posts.
• Syntax highlighting.
• Cover image for each post (with Responsive image support).

Installation

Install Hugo and create a new site. See the Hugo documentation for details.

hugo new site <name of site>
cd <name of site>
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/binokochumolvarghese/lightbi-hugo themes/lightbi-hugo
echo "theme = 'lightbi-hugo'" >> hugo.toml
hugo server

After the above copy the contents of exampleSite to the content folder in your website.

Wiki

Checkout the wiki page for detailed documentation of the theme features.

Support & Contribution

• Star 🌟 this repository.
• Help to spread the word about Hugo Lightbi by sharing it on social media and recommending it to your friends.
• Bug reports & issues: Use GitHub Issues.
• Ideas for new features: Open a discussion on GitHub Discussions.
• General questions: Head to GitHub Discussions.

Credits

• Beautiful Hugo from which Lightbi was forked.
• Unsplash for Images.

About

This is an adaptation of the Beautiful Hugo by Michael Romero. It supports most of the features of the original theme, and many new features. It has diverged from the original theme over time, with several updates.

License

MIT Licensed, see LICENSE.