Creating my Site Theme from `XMin`

hello [at] robyn.digital (robyn) — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:43:00 -0600

Why my Own Theme?

When I settled on HUGO as the static generator for my first stab at a 2025-era small/indie web site, I was slowly but surely reminded of how no, you can’t in fact just build a HUGO site without a theme.

Whether or not that is the way to go (I would argue that it is not; see also Bruce Wray’s excellent article on Really getting started with Hugo), that’s where we are. I would prefer if a Hugo site worked without a theme - if it spit out barebones HTML, basically - and we could just slap on different themes to see what the site looks like with those applied. And then pick the one we like best.

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Creating my Site Theme from `XMin`

Why my Own Theme?