Shodo is a minimalist Hugo theme crafted for writers, bloggers, and modern digital publications. Focused on typography, calm aesthetics, and long-form reading, it creates a thoughtful publishing experience designed for clarity, depth, and distraction-free storytelling.
Features
- Dark and light mode user can select themself
- No jQuery, only vanilla JS
- Local bookmark system for saving articles
- Table of contents navigation
- Reading progress indicator
- Optimized for performance and accessibility
- Super fast performance
- Section featured articles
- Section blog
- Section tags
- Section testimonials
- Social sharing buttons
- Scroll to top button
- Syntax highlighting
- Copy code button
- Compatible with modern browsers
- Medium style image zoom
- Image lazy loading
- Image gallery
- Tags page
- Archive page
- Author page
- Custom logo support
- Support for multiple authors
- Supports video posts
- Supports contact form (Formspree)
- Supports MailChimp newsletter
- Supports Disqus comments
- Supports Google Analytics
- Font Awesome icons – Google Fonts
Credits
We have used the following scripts, fonts or other files as listed.
- Google Fonts (Source Sans 3, Spectral).
- Vanilla Lazyload
- Font Awesome
- Reframe.js
- Tiny Slider
- Instant Search (with modifications)
- Preview Images form unsplash.com, pexels.com
Images Used only for preview purpose and are not included in your purchased files.
If you have any questions, you can contact us by mail [email protected] at any time convenient for you.
Updates
*************** VERSION - 1.0.3: Release on 29 Jun 2026 *************** [***] Added full support for Hugo Page Bundles across all post layouts. [***] Fixed global context bugs ($) for article images and bookmark metadata. [***] Updated JSON search index generator to properly resolve bundle resource paths. [***] Changed Files: assets/sass/2-base/_base.scss assets/sass/4-layouts/home.json assets/sass/4-layouts/single.html assets/sass/4-layouts/_partials/article.html assets/sass/4-layouts/_partials/related-posts.html assets/sass/4-layouts/_partials/recent-posts.html assets/sass/4-layouts/_partials/section-featured-posts.html assets/sass/4-layouts/_partials/sidebar-widgets/widget-featured-post.html assets/sass/4-layouts/_page.scss [***]
*************** VERSION - 1.0.2: Release on 27 Jun 2026 *************** [***] Improved article link styling. [***] Changed Files: assets/sass/2-base/_base.scss assets/sass/4-layouts/_page.scss [***]
*************** VERSION - 1.0.1: Release on 16 Jun 2026 *************** [***] Updated configuration structure to align with the latest Hugo recommendations. [***] Renamed config.toml to hugo.toml. [***] Improved configuration examples and removed deprecated settings. [***] Changed Files: layouts/baseof.html layouts/contact.html hugo.toml [***]
*************** VERSION - 1.0.0: Release on 26 May 2026 *************** [+] Initial Release