Academic: the website builder for Hugo

Create a beautifully simple website in under 10 minutes πŸš€

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Create a free website with Academic using Markdown, Jupyter, or RStudio. Choose a beautiful color theme and build anything with the Page Builder - over 40 widgets, themes, and language packs included!

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Check out the latest demo of what you’ll get in less than 10 minutes, or view the showcase of personal, project, and business sites.

Academic is mobile first with a responsive design to ensure that your site looks stunning on every device.

Key features:

  • Page builder - Create anything with widgets and elements
  • Edit any type of content - Blog posts, publications, talks, slides, projects, and more!
  • Create content in Markdown, Jupyter, or RStudio
  • Plugin System - Fully customizable color and font themes
  • Display Code and Math - Code highlighting and LaTeX math supported
  • Integrations - Google Analytics, Disqus commenting, Maps, Contact Forms, and more!
  • Beautiful Site - Simple and refreshing one page design
  • Industry-Leading SEO - Help get your website found on search engines and social media
  • Media Galleries - Display your images and videos with captions in a customizable gallery
  • Mobile Friendly - Look amazing on every screen with a mobile friendly version of your site
  • Multi-language - 15+ language packs including English, δΈ­ζ–‡, and PortuguΓͺs
  • Multi-user - Each author gets their own profile page
  • Privacy Pack - Assists with GDPR
  • Stand Out - Bring your site to life with animation, parallax backgrounds, and scroll effects
  • One-Click Deployment - No servers. No databases. Only files.

Themes

Academic comes with automatic day (light) and night (dark) mode built-in. Alternatively, visitors can choose their preferred mode - click the sun/moon icon in the top right of the Demo to see it in action! Day/night mode can also be disabled by the site admin in params.toml.

Choose a stunning theme and font for your site. Themes are fully customizable.

Ecosystem

  • Academic Admin: An admin tool to import publications from BibTeX or import assets for an offline site
  • Academic Scripts: Scripts to help migrate content to new versions of Academic

Install

You can choose from one of the following four methods to install:

Then personalize and deploy your new site.

Updating

View the Update Guide.

Feel free to star the project on Github to help keep track of updates.

License

Copyright 2016-present George Cushen.

Released under the MIT license.

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Louis Faure
Postdoctoral Research Scholar