Slash Pages
CSS Overrides and Visual Customization
Control the header image, footer background, card colors, and border accents — all from your hugo.toml without touching theme files.
Affiliate Marketing Tools
Two shortcodes for Amazon affiliate links: a single-product buy button and an interactive ASIN link builder.
Media Embeds
Embed YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud with shortcodes. Video and iframe embeds require one CSP config line — SoundCloud loads via Hugo’s asset pipeline and needs no extra config.
About Ryder
About
Ryder was my Italian Mastiff / Rhodesian Ridgeback dog. He was a good boy. He passed away in 2018, and this theme is dedicated to him.
Ryder is an open source Hugo theme built and maintained by Ben Strawbridge, a project of Arts-Link.
Arts-Link is a small creative studio building digital tools and sites for writers, artists, bands, and independent publishers. Ryder is the theme powering many of those sites — and now it’s available for anyone to use.
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This example page uses the hidden-home layout to put a calm full-screen cover in front of the rest of your site while you work on changes. Add a file named static/images/hidden-home-cover.webp in your site to replace the default background image.
The Ryder Theme
A Hugo theme built with TailwindCSS, Alpine.js, and Font Awesome.
Ryder is intentionally barebones — practical defaults, no bloat. Drop it in and start writing.
- Dark mode — toggle built in, zero config
- Card layouts — multiple variants, fully configurable
- Shortcodes — alerts, maps, recipe schema, media embeds, CTAs, and more
- Schema markup — structured data for recipes and articles out of the box
- Privacy-friendly analytics — pluggable Plausible or PostHog integration