The Hugo Gallery Theme is a straightforward and opinionated solution for creating photo galleries with Hugo. It leverages modern web technologies to provide a rich user experience for showcasing images.
Key Features:
- Responsive Design: Ensures your galleries look great on any device, from desktops to mobile phones.
- Dark Color Scheme: Offers a dark theme that can be applied globally or per page, enhancing visual appeal for photos.
- Private Albums: Supports creating private albums that are not listed in the main overview or RSS feeds, ideal for personal or exclusive content.
- Justified Album Views: Utilizes Flickr's Justified Layout for aesthetically pleasing and dynamic album displays.
- Lightbox Integration: Features PhotoSwipe for a full-screen, touch-friendly lightbox experience when viewing individual images.
- SEO Optimization: Includes Open Graph tags for better social media sharing and search engine visibility.
- Automatic/Manual Cover Images: Automatically selects a feature image or allows manual selection for album covers.
- Image Metadata: Supports EXIF
ImageDescriptionor front mattertitlefor image captions in the lightbox. - Category Support: Organizes albums into categories, with options for custom titles and descriptions for category pages.
- Featured Content: Allows marking albums or categories as "featured" to highlight them on the homepage, even if they are private.
- Related Content: Can display related albums based on keywords or tags, enhancing content discoverability.
- Social Icons: Easy integration of social media links in the footer.
- Excluding Original Photos: Option to exclude original high-resolution images from the published site, saving disk space and disabling download buttons.
- Customization: Provides hooks for adding custom CSS and JavaScript.
Use Cases: This theme is ideal for photographers, artists, or anyone looking to create a personal portfolio or a simple photo blog using Hugo. Its focus on visual presentation, ease of use, and customization options makes it suitable for showcasing image-heavy content without the complexity of traditional CMS platforms. Developers can appreciate its Hugo module and Git submodule installation options, along with its minimal dependencies.
