If you landed here looking for a polished, finished Hugo theme — welcome anyway, but fair warning first: Techly is under active development.

This site is the live example for the theme. What you see today is real and usable, but it is not a frozen product. Layouts, configuration options, and styling will change as the theme matures.

What that means for you

Expect change. Early releases may rename params, adjust templates, or rework components without a long deprecation period. Pin a release tag in your go.mod or hugo.toml if you want predictable builds.

This site follows the theme. hugo-techly exists to demonstrate Techly on GitHub Pages. When the theme updates, this example site updates with it — consider it a preview, not a promise of stability.

Feedback is welcome. Bug reports, layout ideas, and pull requests on the theme repository help shape what Techly becomes.

What works today

At this stage, Techly already covers the basics of a small tech blog:

  • A clean home page with post listings
  • Single-post layouts with optional table of contents
  • Archive and search pages
  • Post series with series index, term pages, and in-article navigation
  • Client-side search with inline suggestions in the header
  • Dark mode and responsive navigation
  • Hugo module installation — no git submodules required

Sample posts on this site show tags, page bundles with images, and typical front matter. They are here to exercise the theme, not to teach Hugo from scratch.

What is still evolving

I am building Techly for my own blog first: simple, opinionated, and free of integrations I do not need. That means some areas are intentionally minimal, and others are not done yet.

Planned or in-progress work includes refinements to typography and documentation. APIs and theme params may shift until the first stable 1.0 release.

How to follow along

If you are experimenting with the theme locally, see Developing Techly locally for the module setup this site uses day to day.

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