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hugo-theme-red-rose — Hugo Blog Template

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Red Rose is a dark blog and portfolio theme built on Hugo and Bootstrap 5.2, offering a responsive layout, About/Tags/List pages, and local fonts.

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Dark blog and portfolio style, built on Hugo and Bootstrap 5.2

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Provides a fully responsive layout, including About, Tags, and List pages

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Uses local fonts, with customizable styles

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Code highlighting uses Hugo's default Chroma with the solarized-dark256 color scheme

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Local Bootstrap for development, switchable to CDN in production

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README states the theme still needs a lot of improvement and points to the hugo-cat repository for updates

Template Details

Red Rose is a Hugo theme published on GitHub, positioned as a dark-style blog and portfolio site. The repository description reads "Hugo Blog Portofolio Dark theme," and the demo site includes pages such as the homepage, blog list, and inner pages.

The theme's features include a fully responsive layout, an About page, a Tags page, and a List page, with customization support and local fonts. Styling is based on Bootstrap 5.2; local Bootstrap files are used during development, while a CDN can be used in production. Code highlighting is handled by Hugo's default Chroma, with the theme using the solarized-dark256 color scheme, which can be adjusted in the Chroma playground. A favicon can be created with a generator and placed in the static directory.

Installation involves manually downloading the theme, extracting it, and copying the example site into the themes directory, or referring to Hugo's official quick start documentation. The author notes that when installing Hugo manually, the extended version must be used; installing Hugo from the software repository on Debian/Ubuntu includes libsass1.

It is worth noting that the README explicitly states the theme "needs a lot of improvement" and directs users to the author's other repository, hugo-cat, for new updates. Some text in the demo site comes from Wikipedia, and the flower images come from Unsplash. The theme is released under the MIT license.

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Use Cases

  • Building a personal dark-style blog
  • Creating a portfolio site with an About page and tags page
  • Needing a Bootstrap-based Hugo starter theme
  • Using local fonts and local Bootstrap assets during local development

Suitable For

  • Bloggers using Hugo who want a quick start
  • Front-end developers needing a dark blog/portfolio theme
  • Users who can accept manual theme installation and adjusting styles themselves

Getting started & customization

Use these recorded setup notes alongside the repository instructions for your chosen version.

  1. 1

    Manually download and extract the theme, copy the example site into the themes directory, or refer to Hugo's official quick start documentation

  2. 2

    When installing Hugo manually, the extended version must be used

  3. 3

    Installing Hugo from the software repository on Debian/Ubuntu includes libsass1

  4. 4

    In production, Bootstrap can be switched to a CDN by adding the corresponding link tag to head.html

  5. 5

    A favicon can be created with a generator and placed in the static directory

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Usage conditions & limitations

Free to use · keep license notice

This entry covers the free version under the MIT license in the public repository; the free scope is the code of this version and does not mean external services or third-party assets are free.

Must comply with when using

  • Free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution of this version's code are permitted.
  • When distributing copies or substantial portions of the code, retain the original author's copyright notice and the full MIT license notice.
  • The code is provided as is; warranties and limitations of liability are governed by the original license and applicable law.

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  • The README explicitly states the theme still needs a lot of improvement, a quality limitation acknowledged by the author; users should expect features and styling may be incomplete.
  • The author directs users to another repository, hugo-cat, for new updates, suggesting this repository may no longer be actively maintained; long-term users should assess the update source themselves.
  • Some text in the demo site comes from Wikipedia; this content is not covered by the MIT code license, and reuse requires independently confirming Wikipedia's licensing and attribution requirements.
  • The flower images in the demo site come from Unsplash and are separately licensed third-party assets not covered by the MIT code license; reuse must comply with the Unsplash license.
  • When installing Hugo manually, the extended version must be used, otherwise the theme may not build properly.
  • Installing Hugo from the software repository on Debian/Ubuntu includes libsass1, which is an environment dependency note.
  • In production, Bootstrap can be switched to a CDN, in which case the page depends on an external CDN service, and availability and privacy implications should be considered.
  • Demo images, fonts, icons, and other third-party assets must be checked against their respective licenses and cannot be judged solely by the code's MIT license.
  • External services such as domains, hosting, databases, payments, or AI may incur additional charges.
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Original License Text

This theme needs a lot of improvement

Original README

visit [here](https://github.com/httpsecure/hugo-cat) for new update

Original README

Some text on demo site from wikipedia

Original README

Flowers images from unsplash

Original README

If you manualy install hugo, you must install hugo extended version

Original README

If you using debian/ubuntu & install hugo from repo it will include **libsass1**

Original README

For production You can use CDN

Original README
https://github.com/httpsecure/hugo-theme-red-rose/blob/main/LICENSEhttps://github.com/httpsecure/hugo-theme-red-rose/blob/main/README.md

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GitHub
Documentation and maintenance reference score
Partly documented · 72 / 100
Technologies
Hugo
Website type
Blog
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Source file / repository
## Red Rose

### This theme needs a lot of improvement

visit [here](https://github.com/httpsecure/hugo-cat)
 for new update


![rose](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/httpsecure/hugo-theme-red-rose/main/images/screenshot.png)


## Demo

**Credit :**

 * Some text on demo site from wikipedia
 * Flowers images from unsplash

 
 [Demo Site](https://red-rose.netlify.app)

## Features

* Fully responsive
* About, Tags, and List pages
* Easy to customize
* Local font 

This theme using bootstrap 5.2

Using local BS for development

For production You can use CDN

and add this inside **head.html**
```
<!-- CSS only -->
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-iYQeCzEYFbKjA/T2uDLTpkwGzCiq6soy8tYaI1GyVh/UjpbCx/TYkiZhlZB6+fzT" crossorigin="anonymous">
```

## Code highlighting

By default hugo using chroma to color your code syntax. All you need to do is to wrap you code like this:

<pre>
``` css
 your code here
```
</pre>
For style prefered you can try this :

[https://swapoff.org/chroma/playground/](https://swapoff.org/chroma/playground/)

For this theme using solarized-dark256

## Favicon

You can use favicon generator & put the favicon file inside **static** folder

## Installation

You can download the theme manually, extract & copy the examplesite go to themes directory
or

Refer to the [Hugo docs](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/) for more information.

## Note

If you manualy install hugo, you must install hugo extended version

If you using debian/ubuntu & install hugo from repo it will include **libsass1**

## License

This theme released under the [MIT License](https://github.com/httpsecure/hugo-theme-red-rose/blob/main/LICENSE).
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