Hugo Lamp
Hugo Lamp is a lightweight, responsive Hugo theme that generates AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) for blogs, created by huyb1991 and published as an open-source repository on GitHub.
What is Hugo Lamp?
Hugo Lamp is a theme for the Hugo static site generator, designed specifically for bloggers who want their content to load quickly on mobile devices through Google's AMP framework. The theme takes your Hugo site's Markdown content as input and outputs static HTML pages that comply with AMP specifications. It is a minimal theme focused on speed and simplicity, and it includes guides for configuring content and site settings. The theme credits gohugo-amp for its build tooling and hugo-nuo for its template design.
Key Features
Hugo Lamp provides a set of focused features for creating fast, AMP-compliant blogs:
- AMP integration — Every generated page is built to AMP standards, allowing browsers and search engines to serve accelerated versions of your content on mobile.
- Responsive layout — The theme's CSS adapts the layout to different screen widths so posts are readable on phones, tablets, and desktops.
- SEO configuration — Detailed documentation covers both per-article SEO settings (via content config) and site-wide SEO options, so you can control titles, descriptions, and metadata.
- Taxonomy support — Supports Hugo's built-in taxonomies (categories and tags) so you can organize posts and let readers browse by topic.
- Social network settings — The site configuration includes options for social networks and connections, letting you link your profiles in the theme.
- Publisher metadata — Configure publisher information, which is used by search engines and AMP validation.
- Customization guides — Official docs explain how to add images to article content, add custom icons, and customize the theme's appearance.
- Menu management — The main menu can be configured through Hugo's site config, with documentation provided.
Who is it for?
Hugo Lamp is designed for three main groups:
- Bloggers who prioritize mobile page speed and want to use AMP without building a custom template.
- Hugo developers who want a minimal, documented theme they can fork and modify for their own static sites.
- Users of static site generators who are looking for a simple, fast theme with built-in SEO and social integration.
What can you do with it?
With Hugo Lamp, you can build and configure a fast blog in several concrete ways:
- Launch a fast blog: Set up a Hugo site, add Hugo Lamp as the theme, and publish Markdown posts that automatically render as AMP pages.
- Optimize for search engines: Use the included SEO documentation to add metadata, publisher info, and descriptive titles to improve discoverability.
- Customize the look: Follow the theme guides to add your own icons, tweak the styling, and configure the main menu and taxonomies to match your content structure.
How does it work?
Hugo Lamp is installed by cloning the repository into your Hugo site's themes directory: create themes, run git clone https://github.com/huyb1991/hugo-lamp, then remove the bundled .git folder. After selecting the theme in your site's configuration, you configure site info, menus, taxonomies, SEO, publisher, and social links as documented in the repository's guide. Content is written as normal Hugo Markdown files, and the build produces static AMP-compliant HTML.
FAQ
Is Hugo Lamp free?
Yes, the theme is open source and available on GitHub. You can clone, use, and modify it without paying a license fee.
What is AMP and why does this theme use it?
AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a web component framework from Google that restricts HTML/CSS/JS to enable fast loading on mobile devices. Hugo Lamp outputs pages conforming to AMP so they can appear in Google's results with faster loading behavior.
What documentation is included?
The repository's docs/guide.md covers content editing (adding images, SEO config, adding icons, customizing theme) and site configuration (site info, main menu, taxonomies, SEO, publisher, social networks).
