Reader is a modern and responsive Hugo magazine website theme. It is perfect for every blogtype, but the color- and playful design makes it perfect for food or fashion blogs. With 9 different home page layouts, contact form integration, category and tag overview pages and an automatically created powerful search engine this theme lets bloggers with no coding experience deliver professional quality results.

Key Features

Reader is full of powerful features to help showcase your work:

Speed:

With its blazing fast page loads you not only improve the user experience (higher page speeds leads to higher conversions) but also the ranking of your website on search engines. This theme hands you speed out of the box.

Full featured Weblog components:

Categories, overview and single post pages – everything you need to create your blog.

Disqus powered comments:

Let your readers comment on your blog without the hassle of managing a full-blown commenting system. Disqus has all the features you need.

Featured posts:

Present your best posts in a prominent section. Easy to configure via frontmatter in your posts.

Powerful Forms Support:

Contact form and newsletter subscription forms are preconfigured to work with Formspree and Mailchimp.

Bootstrap Based:

Bootstrap is a consistent framework that supports the majority of all browsers and CSS
compatibility fixes. It’s lightweight and customizable with responsive structures and styles.

Built with SEO in mind:

All our themes are out-of-the-box SEO friendly. You take care of the content and Reader prepares it for Google and all other search engines.

Netlify Pre-Configured:

This theme is prepared to be used on Netlify. Import your repo on Netlify with this theme and start a new deploy of your website.

Forestry:

Preconfigured with complete setup to use this theme on your Forestry.io CMS.

Automatic Search:

This theme creates a convenient search index automatically based on your content with search suggestions for the visitor.

Documentation

You can find the detailed documentation for this theme on our Documentation Site. To get a quick start with your new Hugo website please have a look at our Hugo Quickstart Guide.

Updates and Support

Reader was created by the GetHugoThemes team with great care. We keep all our themes up to date with fixes and new features, and provide direct 1-to-1 support for all included features – feel free to send us a message.

Tweaks and Modifications

Are you getting stuck trying to make individual customizations, adding that special personal touch, or a feature that is not yet included? You can hire us to complete small custom tasks on this theme.