Hugo theme built using Tailwind CSS, mostly for bloggers.

Check https://hugo-theme-tailwind.tomo.dev/ for demo.

• High Lighthouse score
• Dark mode - switch between light and dark mode, or default by system prefers.
• SVG icons thanks to tabler icons
• Google Analytics - add your Google Analytics ID to hugo.toml
• Comments settings for disqus and giscus
• Social media link data settings
• Additional short code: bilibili, asciinema
• Responsive design
• Multilingual
• Default image process for lazy load and srcset
• Search (by using fuse.js and mark.js)
• Image support for article (using image param in front matter)
• Structured data JSON-LD for article (enable jsonLD in config file or front matter)
• Simple PWA support - check params.pwa in config file

Add the theme as a submodule by running the following command in the root directory of your Hugo site:

git submodule add https://github.com/tomowang/hugo-theme-tailwind.git themes/tailwind
# Or to update to the latest version
git submodule update --remote

You can use the following configuration for basic usage.

baseURL = "https://example.com/"
title = "Hugo Theme Tailwind Example Site"
author = "Your Name"
copyright = "Your Name"
paginate = 10
languageCode = "en"
theme = "tailwind"

[markup]
  _merge = "deep"

[params]
  # dir name of your blog content (default is `content/posts`).
  # the list of set content will show up on your index page (baseurl).
  contentTypeName = "posts"

  [params.header]
    logo = "logo.webp"

  [params.footer]
    since = 2023
    poweredby = true

[menu]

  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "post"
    name = "Post"
    pageRef = "/posts"
    weight = 10

  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "about"
    name = "About"
    pageRef = "/about"
    weight = 20

[taxonomies]
category = "categories"
tag = "tags"
series = "series"

For advanced usage, please refer to config directory config/_default and exampleSite/config/_default. Some of the configuration options are:

• markup: goldmark and options for markdown rendering
• params.header: header settings (logo and sticky navbar)
• params.footer: footer settings (copyright years, powered by, etc.)
• contentTypeName: dir name of your blog content (default is content/posts).
• params.taxonomies.icons: icons for taxonomies (categories, tags, series, etc.).
• params.giscus: giscus settings
• params.social_media: social media links shown in the footer
• params.search: search settings
• params.author: author used in the JSON-LD
• params.showAuthor: show author name in article list and article page
• params.jsonLD: enable or disable JSON-LD (default disabled)
• params.pwa: enable or disable PWA (default disabled)

For social media link data, you can refer entries in params.social_media.items (You can add more or disable existing entries in params.social_media.items).

[[social_media.items]]
enabled = false
title = 'Facebook'
icon = 'brand-facebook'
link = 'https://www.facebook.com/'

The theme folder structure is as follows:

You can extend the theme by creating following files in your site folder:

• layouts/partials/custom_head.html
• layouts/partials/custom_footer.html

This theme use Tailwind CSS for styling. If you want to make some changes, use pnpm install to install dependencies.

• Development: pnpm dev, this will generate css for theme users and start example site.

exampleSite is fetched from https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoBasicExample with some modifications.

Search the icon in tabler icons. Download or Copy SVG and paste to theme/tailwind/assets/icons/. Remember to remove width="24" height="24" in the SVG file. Use the icon file name in your site configuration. Or if you want to update theme layout content, you can use the following code.

<i class="h-6 w-6 flex-none">
  {{ partial "icon.html" "brightness-down" }}
</i>