Why Another Hugo Theme?
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I tried some themes such as PaperMod , Ananke , mini , Anubis and Whisper . Every theme lack in some aspect, so I decided to create a new theme for my own use case.
Name of the theme ๐
I named the theme KMT which is the name of Egypt - my home - in the ancient egyptian language. I develop the theme for Hugo as open source on GitHub , GitLab and Codeberg .
Theme specifications ๐
No one theme has all my specifications available. Here are all my needs for the theme.
- SEO optimization
- lazyload images
- support Google Analytics
- support Google AdSense
- bilingual theme (English & Arabic)
- SEO meta tags
- link to translation of current page if exists
- support image caption
- mobile-first, responsive layout
- ToC: Table of contents
- easy-to-copy link to specific heading/title
- buttons to share posts into LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and WhatsApp.
- support Tags and Categories (both). Use what you want.
- links to your social media profiles in the footer.
- add the year when the website/blog launched, and show the current year next to it in the footer’s copyright notice.