Hugo Best Practices
Hugo Best Practices is a free, open-source static site theme built with Hugo. Best practices and ideas for Hugo the open-source static site generator. It has 296 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. A live demo is linked from this page.
Get started
Copy the files into a new folder with degit (no git history), or clone the repository with git.
git submodule add https://github.com/spech66/hugo-best-practices.git themes/hugo-best-practicesnpx degit spech66/hugo-best-practices my-site
cd my-sitegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spech66/hugo-best-practices.git my-siteSources: GitHub docs on template repositories, degit.
About Hugo Best Practices
Best practices and ideas for Hugo the open-source static site generator. Themes based on this best practices: Bootstrap-BP, Flex-BP-CV, Bootstrap-BP hugo startpage.
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What is Hugo Best Practices?
Hugo Best Practices is a free, open-source static site theme built with Hugo. Best practices and ideas for Hugo the open-source static site generator. It has 296 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. A live demo is linked from this page.
How do I use Hugo Best Practices?
Copy the files into a new folder with npx degit spech66/hugo-best-practices my-site (no git history), or fork the repository on GitHub. Then follow the README for the install and dev commands.
Can I use Hugo Best Practices for commercial projects?
Yes. Hugo Best Practices is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows commercial use as long as you keep the copyright and license notice. Third-party assets bundled with it (images, fonts, icons) may have their own terms.
Is Hugo Best Practices maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 5, 2026. appsgit only lists templates from repositories with a commit in the last six months.