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KeepIt

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Updated: 27 Jun 2025
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The most powerful minimal Hugo theme.

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Overview

The KeepIt Hugo Theme is a clean and elegant blog theme designed for Hugo, based on the original LeaveIt Theme. It offers a simple yet stylish design to showcase blog content effectively. The theme has been optimized for performance with high scores on mobile and desktop. It also provides various features such as multilanguage support, pagination, comment systems, social media integration, and more. Additionally, it offers customization options and supports dark/light mode.

Features

  • Optimized for performance with high scores on mobile and desktop
  • Optimized SEO performance with correct SEO SCHEMA based on JSON-LDA
  • Consistent style between pages and sections
  • Multilanguage support
  • Pagination support
  • Google Analytics support
  • Various comment systems: Disqus, Gitalk, Valine, Gitment, and Utterances
  • Gravatar support
  • Local Avatar support
  • Share post support
  • Search engine verification support (Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu)
  • Added configuration file for use on Netlify
  • Dark/Light mode
  • Supports up to 54 social media sites
  • Translation ready
  • Image handling and lazy loading
  • Automatic code highlighting
  • Customizable styles via CSS
  • Automagical image gallery with lightGallery

Installation

  1. Clone this repository to your Hugo theme directory.
  2. Open config.toml in the base of the Hugo site and ensure the theme option is set to KeepIt.
  3. Copy the config.toml from the exampleSite folder to the root directory of your website. Overwrite the existing config file if necessary.
  4. Follow the site configuration suggestions provided in the exampleSite folder.
  5. Customize styles for your website by editing the relevant files in the assets/css directory.
  6. Customize favicons, browserconfig, and manifest files by placing your own images in the /static directory. Use a favicon generator like https://realfavicongenerator.net/ for ease of use.
  7. Set the production environment when generating your site to activate certain functions.

Summary

The KeepIt Hugo Theme is a stylish and performance-focused theme for blogs built with Hugo. With its optimized design and features like SEO support, multilanguage support, comment systems, and social media integration, it provides a comprehensive solution for bloggers looking for an elegant and functional theme. Its customization options, image handling features, and code highlighting further enhance the user experience. Overall, KeepIt is a highly recommended choice for bloggers using the Hugo framework.