Add Your Hugo Theme to the Showcase

A collection of all themes created by the Hugo community, including screenshots and demos, can be found at https://themes.gohugo.io. Every theme in this list will automatically be added to the theme site. Theme updates aren’t scheduled but usually happen at least once a week.

tl;dr

1. Create your theme using hugo new theme <THEMENAME>;
2. Test your theme against https://github.com/spf13/HugoBasicExample *
3. Add a theme.toml file to the root of the theme with all required metadata
4. Add a descriptive README.md to the root of the theme source
5. Add /images/screenshot.png and /images/tn.png

* If your theme doesn’t fit into the Hugo Basic Example site, we encourage theme authors to supply a self-contained Hugo site in /exampleSite.

See the Hugo Artist theme’s exampleSite for a good example.

Theme Requirements

In order to add your theme to the Hugo Themes Showcase, the following requirements need to be met:

1. theme.toml with all required fields
2. Images for thumbnail and screenshot
3. A good README file instructions for users
4. Addition to the hugoThemes GitHub repository

Add Your Theme to the Repo

The easiest way to add your theme is to open up a new issue in the theme repository with a link to the theme’s repository on GitHub.

Create a theme.toml File

theme.toml contains metadata about the theme and its creator and should be created automatically when running the hugo new theme. The auto-generated file is provided here as well for easy downloading:

name = ""
license = "MIT"
licenselink = "https://github.com/<YOURNAME>/<YOURTHEME>/blob/master/LICENSE.md"
description = ""
homepage = "https://example.com/"
tags = []
features = []
min_version = 0.19

[author]
  name = ""
  homepage = ""

# If porting an existing theme
[original]
  name = ""
  homepage = ""
  repo = ""

The following fields are required:

name = "Hyde"
license = "MIT"
licenselink = "https://github.com/spf13/hyde/blob/master/LICENSE.md"
description = "An elegant open source and mobile first theme"
homepage = "http://siteforthistheme.com/"
tags = ["blog", "company"]
features = ["blog"]
min_version = 0.13

[author]
    name = "spf13"
    homepage = "http://spf13.com/"

# If porting an existing theme
[original]
    author = "mdo"
    homepage = "http://hyde.getpoole.com/"
    repo = "https://www.github.com/mdo/hyde"

Images

Screenshots are used for previews in the Hugo Theme Gallery. Make sure that they have the right dimensions:

• Thumbnail should be 900px × 600px
• Screenshot should be 1500px × 1000px
• Media must be located in
  • /images/screenshot.png
  • /images/tn.png

Additional media may be provided in the same directory.

Create a README File

Your theme’s README file should be written in markdown and saved at the root of your theme’s directory structure. Your README.md serves as

1. Content for your theme’s details page at https://themes.gohugo.io
2. General information about the theme in your GitHub repository (i.e., it’s usual purpose)

Example README.md

You can download the following README.md as an outline:

# Theme Title

**Need input from @digitalcraftsman on what could be added to this file.**