Hydejack

Hydejack is a Jekyll theme with JavaScript powers, combining the best of static sites and modern web apps. It features a suite of JavaScript that makes the page feel like an app, without sacrificing backwards-compatibility, page-load speed or SEO.

Your presence on the web — A blog, a portfolio and a resume.

Hydejack aims to be the complete package for professionals on the web. It features a blog suitable for both prose and technical documentation, a showcase for your projects, and a resume that fits with the rest of the design.

Demo

It's best to just see it in action.

Features

Both versions include these features:

• Full in-app page loading, powered by hy-push-state
• A customizable sidebar that turns into a drawer menu on mobile, powered by hy-drawer
• Advanced FLIP animations, inspired by Material Design
• Good Google PageSpeed Score¹
• Higher perceived speed thanks to content pre-fetching
• Syntax highlighting, powered by Rouge
• LaTeX math blocks, powered by KaTeX
• Change the wording of built-in strings and possibly translate in other languages
• Support for categories and tags
• Built-in icons for many social networks
• Simple and semantic HTML — can be viewed even with text-based browsers
• Author section below each article and support for multiple authors
• Progressive enhancement — sacrifice features, not content
• Google Analytics and Google Fonts support
• Disqus comments
• Print layout — Used to render Hydejack's PDF documentation
• Blog layout via jekyll-paginate (optional)
• SEO meta tags via jekyll-seo-tag (optional)
• Github avatars via jekyll-avatar (optional)
• Gist support via jekyll-gist (optional)

Documentation

Hydejack is well documented. You can read the docs on the Jekyll site, or on GitHub, or download the PDF.

Download

There are two versions of Hydejack: The free version includes basic blogging functionality, as did previous versions of the theme. The PRO version includes additional features for professionals: A portfolio, a resume layout and a welcome page to feature your favorite projects and posts.

This table details what is and isn't included in each respective version.

	Free	PRO
Blog	✔	✔
Features	✔	✔
Portfolio Layout		✔
Resume Layout		✔
Welcome Layout		✔
Newsletter Box		✔
Custom Forms		✔
No Hydejack Branding		✔
License	GPL-3.0	PRO
Source	GitHub	Included
Support2	No	No
Price	Free	$29
	Download	Buy Now - $29 3
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*[FLIP]: First-Last-Invert-Play. A coding technique to achieve performant page transition animations.

Footnotes

1. Actual page load speed depends on your hosting provider, resolution of embedded images and usage of 3rd party plugins. ↩

2. You MAY open an issue on GitHub, but no response and/or fix is guaranteed. You understand that using Jekyll requires technical know-how, and is NOT comparable to Wordpress in terms of usability. Please use the free version to confirm that Hydejack works for you. For more, see the PRO license. ↩

3. Transactions secured by Stripe. Downloads handled by Simple Goods. ↩