Ultimate Hugo Theme

Ultimate is a Hugo theme developed by Session Technologies which focuses on the following aspects:

• Editors peace of mind: deliver a simple workflow for editors to change contents, using an intuitive folder and file structure
• Layout flexibility: allow editors to compose their pages using pre-defined section layouts in different orders, across all website pages
• Feature-rich: Multi-language, simple integration with Google Analytics, Jivo chat, Privy and more
• Documentation and tutorials on how to go live with a website built with the Ultimate theme
• Production-ready: Responsive, uber-fast w3c validated, SEO-optimised (<meta> configuration)
• Truly open source: only uses open source libraries with permissive licenses, such as MIT and Apache Software License (ASL), which are listed below. All code in this repository is released under ASL 2.0
• Ongoing maintenance, updating to latest libraries, fixing bugs, extending section layouts and other theme features

If you're new to Hugo, checkout how to get started.

If you want to know how to use this theme, read more on editing content and defining page layouts.

If you want to know how to setup GitHub Pages to host your website and Travis CI to continuously build your changes, read more on how to go live.

If you want to see the theme in action, visit the session.it website; you can check the code on GitHub and run it locally with few simple steps.

Getting started with Hugo and GitHub

• Install Hugo
• Create a new site
• Add the Ultimate theme, the hacky and the proper way
• Local webwite preview
• Push code to GitHub

Editing contents

• General website setup
• Edit homepage content
• Add a page
• Page structure
• Add images
• Add/remove languages

Define page layouts

• Show/hide header and footer
• Configure homepage layout
• Configure pages layout
• Override JS and CSS files (ie updating libraries)

Go Live

• dev/master/gh-pages branching in GitHub
• Dev Preview
• GitHub pages setup
• Travis CI setup

Libraries and licenses

• Bootstrap v4.1.3 (MIT)
• jQuery v3.3.1 (MIT)
• Waypoints v4.0.1 (MIT)
• Owl Carousel v2.3.4 (MIT)

Fonts

• Open Sans
• Ubuntu

Roadmap

• Using forestry.io or any other CMS that allows full content editing
• Theme extensibility (ie "registering" new HTML layout pages)
• LinkedIN blogpost - "building static website in a post-wordpress era"