Hugo Liftoff

Hugo Liftoff is a minimalist Hugo theme designed for blogs and portfolios, prioritizing content creation and SEO best practices. It's an excellent choice for technical users looking to establish a personal brand.

Key features include:

• Content Management: Supports content subsections with filtering options for recent homepage posts, and a series posts taxonomy that lists all related articles. It also offers next/previous navigation links for seamless content browsing.
• Design & Responsiveness: Features a light/dark mode toggle using CSS custom properties, ensuring a comfortable viewing experience. The theme is mobile-responsive with a collapsible JavaScript menu that automatically supports submenus based on configuration.
• SEO & Analytics: Implements enhanced Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and Schema.org templates for superior search engine visibility. It includes an RSS feed, customizable title and meta description tags, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml. Integration with Google Analytics v4 and Google Tag Manager is also supported.
• Forms & Social Integration: Provides customizable newsletter opt-in forms with Netlify Forms support, offering global or per-page visibility control. It integrates native social links (Twitter, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, email) and social share icons for posts (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, email).
• Development Workflow: Utilizes a modern frontend build pipeline with ESBuild and ToCSS, including CSS and JavaScript minification. PostCSS processing for autoprefixing is optional, and npm is only required if using PostCSS/Autoprefixer. It supports custom CSS/JS, fluid typography, and sourcemaps for development.
• Content Enhancements: Offers toggle-able sticky tables of contents, related posts, reading time, word count, and last modified dates for articles. Projects can include custom live URLs, source URLs, and tech stack details. Code snippets benefit from syntax highlighting, one-click copy buttons, and language indicators.
• Customization: Highly customizable through config.toml and frontmatter, allowing control over homepage hero sections, post/project headings, image processing, feature images, custom avatars, and favicon settings. Archetype templates simplify content creation for posts and projects.