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Vortisil is a fast, minimal, and restrained Hugo theme for blogs, created by khitezza, that turns Markdown content into a responsive static site with dark/light themes, full-text search, and optional math rendering.
Vortisil is a Hugo theme (not a standalone site builder) designed for personal blogs and content sites. It takes Markdown-based content managed through Hugo's content/ directory and produces a static website with a blog layout, homepage works showcase, archives, and search. The theme is distributed as a public GitHub repository and requires Hugo Extended version 0.116.0 or higher. It is written by khitezza and released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
assets/assets/scss/custom.scss and the primary color can be overridden per theme.math = true in a post's front matter or site config to render LaTeX formulas; the theme loads MathJax.js.repo, repoId, category, categoryId, and mapping in hugo.toml.data/works.toml.data/l10n.toml — Translation strings for home, about, archives, search, and other UI text are stored in this file; contributors can submit translations via git patch or pull request..github/workflows/gh-pages.yaml builds the site with Hugo and deploys to GitHub Pages, including Dart Sass installation and caching.hugo.toml.math = true in front matter and write LaTeX formulas that render via MathJax.data/works.toml and they appear on the homepage.CNAME file for custom domains.data/l10n.toml to translate the theme's strings, or contribute a translation.The theme is added to a Hugo site as a git submodule (git submodule add https://github.com/khitezza/vortisil themes/vortisil). Content is created with hugo new content posts/YYYY-MM-DD-Title.md, and site-wide settings live in hugo.toml (theme, params, menus, markup highlighting style). Customization is done by editing SCSS variables, providing logo/favicon images in specific asset paths, and optionally enabling comments and math. Deploying to GitHub Pages is automated with the provided workflow.
Yes. Vortisil is open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
Set math = true in your hugo.toml [params] or per-post in front matter. The theme then loads MathJax.js to render LaTeX.
It supports localization through a data/l10n.toml file rather than a full i18n system; translations are community-contributed via git patches or pull requests.
Copy the provided .github/workflows/gh-pages.yaml into your repository, set your baseURL or add a CNAME, and push to the trunk branch. The workflow builds with Hugo Extended and deploys.
You need Hugo Extended (version 0.116.0 or higher), Git, and optionally Dart Sass when running the provided GitHub Actions build.