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Bulma

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Updated: 31 Mar 2022
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Bulma is a simple and a responsive Hugo theme that offers a traditional blog mixed with a landing page designed to bootstrap your frontend!.

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Overview

The Bulma Theme for Hugo is a responsive Hugo theme that combines traditional blog elements with a landing page design, making it ideal for front-end development. It offers mobile-first design, responsive layout optimization, integration with Google Analytics and Disqus Commenting, support for OpenGraph and Schema Structured Data, paginated lists, reading time indication, related posts section, a configurable section menu, block templates for layout extensions, accessible table of contents, configurable themes, SEO site verification, lazy loading for media, syntax highlighting, and a 404 page.

Features

  • Mobile-first Design: Every element in Bulma is designed to be mobile-first and optimized for vertical reading.
  • Responsive Design: The theme is optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.
  • Google Analytics: Integration with Google Analytics using the internal async template.
  • Disqus Commenting: Post comments with Disqus using the internal template.
  • OpenGraph support: SEO-optimized using OpenGraph.
  • Schema Structured Data: Utilizes Schema Structured Data and Meta tags for improved search engine visibility.
  • Paginated Lists: Simple list pagination with page indicators.
  • Reading Time: Displays estimated reading time for posts and update notices to set user expectations.
  • Last Modified time: Provides meta data for all articles, including links to category and tag taxonomy listings, author information, and word count.
  • Related Posts: Displays related content to increase page views and reader loyalty.
  • Section Menu: Configurable Section Menu for global site navigation.
  • Block Templates: Block Templates for foolproof layout extensions.
  • Table of Contents: Accessible Table of Contents for easy navigation.
  • Variants themes: Configurable themes to customize the look and feel of the site.
  • SEO Site Verification: Enables site verification with Google, Bing, Alexa, and Yandex.
  • Media lazy loading: Intelligent lazyloading for images and iFrame embeds to improve page loading speed.
  • Syntax Highlighting: Provides a richer experience when sharing code snippets in posts.
  • Clipboard.js addons: Allows users to copy code text to the clipboard.
  • 404 page: Includes a customized 404 page with animated background.

Installation

To install the Bulma Theme for Hugo, follow these steps:

  1. Inside the folder of your Hugo site, run the command:
hugo server -D

This will start the Hugo development server.

  1. Copy the custom archetypes to your site.

  2. Next, navigate to the exampleSite folder. This folder contains an example config.toml file and content for the demo. Copy at least the config.toml file to the root directory of your website, overwriting the existing config file if necessary.

  3. Now you can go to localhost:1313 in your web browser and the Bulma theme should be visible.

Summary

The Bulma Theme for Hugo is a responsive Hugo theme that combines blog and landing page elements to bootstrap front-end development. With its mobile-first design, responsive layout optimization, and various features such as Google Analytics integration, Disqus commenting, OpenGraph support, and lazy loading for media, this theme provides an excellent foundation for building a personal blog or website. Installation is straightforward and can be done by following the provided guide.