Hugo + Tailwind CSS Starter and Boilerplate

Hugoplate is a free starter template built with Hugo and Tailwind CSS v4.0, providing everything you need to jumpstart your Hugo project and save valuable time.

Made with ♥ by Zeon Studio

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👀 Demo | Page Speed (95+)🚀 |

Table of Contents

• What's Included
  • Key Features
  • 15+ Pre-designed Pages
• Tech Stack
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Project Setup
  • Install Dependencies
  • Development Command
• Customization
  • Site Config
  • Site Params
  • Colors and Fonts
  • Social Links
• Advanced Usage
• Build And Deploy
• Guide to Staying Compliant
• Showcase
• Need Customization?

🎁 What's Included

We have included almost everything you need to start your Hugo project. Let's see what's included in this template:

📌 Key Features

• 👥 Multi-Authors
• 🎯 Similar Posts Suggestion
• 🔍 Search Functionality
• 🌑 Dark Mode
• 🏷️ Tags & Categories
• 🔗 Netlify setting pre-configured
• 📞 Support contact form
• 📱 Fully responsive
• 📝 Write and update content in Markdown
• 💬 Disqus Comment
• 🔳 Syntax Highlighting

📄 15+ Pre-designed Pages

• 🏠 Homepage
• 👤 About
• 📞 Contact
• 👥 Authors
• 👤 Author Single
• 📝 Blog
• 📝 Blog Single
• 🚫 Custom 404
• 💡 Elements
• 📄 Privacy Policy
• 🏷️ Tags
• 🏷️ Tag Single
• 🗂️ Categories
• 🗂️ Category Single
• 🔍 Search

📦 Tech Stack

• Hugo
• Tailwind CSS v4.0
• AutoPrefixer
• Hugo Modules by Gethugothemes
• Markdown
• Prettier
• Jshint
• Netlify
• Vercel
• Github Actions
• Gitlab Ci
• AWS Amplify

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🚀 Getting Started

First you need to clone or download the template repository, and then let's get started with the following process:

⚙ Prerequisites

To start using this template, you need to have some prerequisites installed on your machine.

• Hugo Extended v0.144+
• Node v22+
• Go v1.24+

👉 Project Setup

We built this custom script to make your project setup easier. It will create a new Hugo theme folder and clone the Hugoplate theme into it. Then move the exampleSite folder into the root directory. So that you can start your Hugo server without going into the exampleSite folder. Use the following command to setup your project.

npm run project-setup

👉 Install Dependencies

Install all the dependencies using the following command.

npm install

👉 Development Command

Start the development server using the following command.

npm run dev

🎬 Still Confused? Watch a Quick Video

https://github.com/zeon-studio/hugoplate/assets/58769763/c260c0ae-91be-42ce-b8db-aa7f11f777bd

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📝 Customization

This template has been designed with a lot of customization options in mind. You can customize almost anything you want, including:

👉 Site Config

You can change the site title, base URL, language, theme, plugins, and more from the hugo.toml file.

👉 Site Params

You can customize all the parameters from the config/_default/params.toml file. This includes the logo, favicon, search, SEO metadata, and more.

👉 Colors and Fonts

You can change the colors and fonts from the data/theme.json file. This includes the primary color, secondary color, font family, and font size.

👉 Social Links

You can change the social links from the data/social.json file. Add your social links here, and they will automatically be displayed on the site.

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🛠 Advanced Usage

We have added some custom scripts to make your life easier. You can use these scripts to help you with your development.

👉 Update Theme

If you want to update the theme, then you can use the following command. It will update the theme to the latest version.

npm run update-theme

Note: This command will work after running the project-setup script.

👉 Update Modules

We have added a lot of modules to this template. You can update all the modules using the following command.

npm run update-modules

👉 Remove Dark Mode

If you want to remove dark mode from your project, you can use the following command to remove dark mode from your project.

npm run remove-darkmode

Note: This command will work before running the project-setup script. If you have already run the project-setup command, then you have to run npm run theme-setup first, and then you can run this command. Afterward, you can run npm run project-setup again.

👉 Remove Multilingual

If you want to remove multilingual from your project, you can use the following command to remove multilingual from your project.

npm run remove-multilang

Note: This command will work before running the project-setup script. If you have already run the project-setup command, then you have to run npm run theme-setup first, and then you can run this command. Afterward, you can run npm run project-setup again.

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🚀 Build And Deploy

After you finish your development, you can build or deploy your project almost everywhere. Let's see the process:

👉 Build Command

To build your project locally, you can use the following command.

npm run build

👉 Deploy Site

We have provided 5 different deploy platform configurations with this template, so you can deploy easily.

• Netlify
• Vercel
• Github Actions
• Gitlab Ci
• AWS Amplify

And if you want to host some other hosting platforms. Then you can build your project, and you will get a public folder. that you can copy and paste on your hosting platform.

Note: You must change the baseURL in the hugo.toml file. Otherwise, your site will not work properly.

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📝 Edit Content with CMS

This template comes pre-configured with Sitepins, a Git-based Headless CMS designed for seamless content management. You can update your website’s text, images, and configuration without touching a single line of code.

How to get started:

Click the Edit with Sitepins button below and follow the on-screen instructions to start editing your content visually.

🔒 Guide to Staying Compliant

🐞 Reporting Issues

We use GitHub Issues as the official bug tracker for this Template. Please search existing issues. Someone may have already reported the same problem. If your problem or idea has not been addressed yet, feel free to open a new issue.

📝 License

Copyright (c) 2023 - Present, Designed & Developed by Zeon Studio

Code License: Released under the MIT license.

Image license: The images are only for demonstration purposes. They have their license, we don't have permission to share those images.

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🌠 Showcase

List of some projects people are building with Hugoplate! Don't forget to add yours.

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💻 Need Customization?

If you need a custom theme, theme customization, or complete website development services from scratch, you can Hire Us.