Shodo – Minimal HUGO Theme for Writers & Bloggers Latest Version

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