Monday theme

Monday theme is a minimal, decoration-free blog theme built for the Hugo static site generator that prioritizes readable content over visual elements.

What is Monday theme?

Monday theme is a clean and simple blog theme for Hugo, a static site generator. It takes standard Hugo Markdown content with front matter as input and produces a static blog site with a single-column layout, an aside block, and an optional top navigation menu. The theme is developed by GitHub user cyevgeniy and distributed as an open-source repository at github.com/cyevgeniy/monday-theme.

Key Features

• Minimal design — The theme uses almost no decorative elements, keeping the focus on blog posts and reducing distractions for visitors.
• Hugo native — Built for the Hugo static site generator; configure it by setting theme = "monday-theme" in your site's config.toml.
• Single-level menu — Add a top navigation menu with a name, URL, and weight per item; nested or dropdown menus are not supported.
• Featured posts — Mark any post with featured: true in its front matter to display it in the "Featured posts" section.
• Hidden posts — Set hidden: true in front matter to keep a featured post out of the regular blog listing.
• Intro text block — Configure introTitle and introBody parameters in config.toml to show a personal introduction at the bottom of the aside block.
• Featured images — Assign a featured_image path in a post's front matter to display an image directly after the post heading.
• Simple installation — Clone the repository into your Hugo project's themes directory and set the theme name; no additional build tools or dependencies are required.

Who is it for?

• Personal bloggers who want a clean, minimal layout so readers concentrate on the writing rather than layout flourishes.
• Technical writers already using Hugo who need a lightweight theme for a documentation or idea blog without extra complexity.
• Developers learning Hugo can study a compact theme codebase that uses standard Hugo templates and config parameters.

What can you do with Monday theme?

• Publish a focused blog: Write posts in Markdown with Hugo front matter, and the theme renders them in a single-column layout with no sidebar distractions.
• Highlight selected content: Use the featured and hidden parameters to create a curated "Featured posts" section separate from the chronological archive.
• Add a personal intro: Fill in introTitle and introBody to present yourself or a contact email in the sidebar area of every page.
• Top-level navigation: Configure up to a single-level menu in config.toml to link to sections like Home, Blog, or About.

How does Monday theme work?

Install the theme by cloning the repository into your Hugo project's themes folder: git clone https://github.com/cyevgeniy/monday-theme themes/monday-theme. Then set theme = "monday-theme" in your site's config.toml. Content is written as standard Hugo posts, and the theme reads front-matter parameters such as featured, hidden, and featured_image to control layout behavior. The repository README lists a to-do that includes adding a footer and publishing to the Hugo Themes site, so the footer may not be available yet.