Congo 2.0 is packed with tons of new features and optimisations.
The original aim of Congo was to develop a theme that was simple and lightweight. Version 2 takes this one step further and makes the theme even more powerful while still maintaining its lightweight footprint.
Continue reading below to discover what’s new. When you’re ready to upgrade, check out the guide to upgrading.
Tailwind CSS 3.0 #
Tailwind CSS is at the heart of Congo and this new release contains the very latest Tailwind CSS version 3. It brings with it performance optimisations and support for some great new CSS features.
Implementing this new version has also removed some Tailwind plugin dependencies from the theme, allowing the overall footprint to remain lightweight.
Multilingual support #
A highly requested feature, Congo is now multilingual! If you publish your content in multiple languages, the site will be built with all the translations available.
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Thanks to submissions from the community, Congo has already been translated into eight languages with more to be added over time. By the way, pull requests for new languages are always welcome!
RTL language support #
One of the benefits of the new Tailwind and Multilingual features is the ability to add RTL language support. When enabled, the entire site will reflow content from right-to-left. Every element in the theme has been restyled to ensure it looks great in this mode which aids authors who wish to generate content in RTL languages.
RTL is controlled on a per-language basis so you can mix and match both RTL and LTR content in your projects and the theme will respond accordingly.
Automatic image resizing #
A big change in Congo 2.0 is the addition of automatic image resizing. Using the power of Hugo Pipes, images in Markdown content are now automatically scaled to different output sizes. These are then presented using HTML srcset attributes enabling optimised file sizes to be served to your site visitors.
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Congo
A powerful, lightweight theme for Hugo built with Tailwind CSS.
This is a demo site built entirely using Congo. It also contains a complete set of theme documentation. Congo is flexible and is great for both static page-based content (like this demo) or a traditional blog with a feed of recent posts.
This is a demo of the page layout.
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Switch layout ↻ Explore the sample pages to get a feel for what Congo can do. If you like what you see, check out the project on Github or read the Installation guide to get started.
Photo by Jippe Joosten on Unsplash.
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Congo has built-in support for a number of FontAwesome 6 icons.
This article offers a sample of basic Markdown formatting that can be used in Congo, also it shows how some basic HTML elements are decorated.
This is an example of a rich content summary.
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Lorem est tota propiore conpellat pectoribus de pectora summo.
KaTeX can be used to render mathematical notation within articles.
Not your ordinary theme!
A powerful, lightweight theme for Hugo built with Tailwind CSS.
This is a demo site built entirely using Congo. It also contains a complete set of theme documentation. Congo is flexible and is great for both static page-based content (like this demo) or a traditional blog with a feed of recent posts.
This is a demo of the page layout.
+/congo/squid_hu51d752120af953339dca2ec6f3d47d3a_227177_1320x0_resize_q75_box.jpg 2x" src=/congo/squid_hu51d752120af953339dca2ec6f3d47d3a_227177_660x0_resize_q75_box.jpg alt="A stylised photograph of a purple squid on a pink backdrop.">Photo by Jippe Joosten on Unsplash.··1 min
Congo has built-in support for a number of FontAwesome 6 icons.
This article offers a sample of basic Markdown formatting that can be used in Congo, also it shows how some basic HTML elements are decorated.
This is an example of a rich content summary.
··2 mins
Lorem est tota propiore conpellat pectoribus de pectora summo.
KaTeX can be used to render mathematical notation within articles.
Not your ordinary theme!
A powerful, lightweight theme for Hugo built with Tailwind CSS.
This is a demo site built entirely using Congo. It also contains a complete set of theme documentation. Congo is flexible and is great for both static page-based content (like this demo) or a traditional blog with a feed of recent posts.
This is a demo of the page layout.
Explore the sample pages to get a feel for what Congo can do. If you like what you see, check out the project on Github or read the Installation guide to get started.
Photo by Jippe Joosten on Unsplash.
··1 min
Congo has built-in support for a number of FontAwesome 6 icons.
This article offers a sample of basic Markdown formatting that can be used in Congo, also it shows how some basic HTML elements are decorated.
This is an example of a rich content summary.
··2 mins
Lorem est tota propiore conpellat pectoribus de pectora summo.
KaTeX can be used to render mathematical notation within articles.