Glacier - Clean & Minimal Portfolio Hugo Theme

Glacier is a Hugo theme for portfolios, creative projects and other visual things. It is suitable for agencies, freelancers, photographers, illustrators and studios wanting a clear site with strong project presentation. The layout remains simple and easy to work with. Moreover, premium plugins like Media Boxes Portfolio and Revolution Slider help you create smoother gallery transitions for a more enjoyable viewing experience. With Glacier, you can present your work online with a sophisticated design without heavy presentation.

Features

• Powered by HUGO
• Netlify ready
• Multilingual – 5 languages included (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian)
  • Language switcher in the header – dropdown or inline style
  • Separate content folder for each language
  • Translate only what changes – everything else falls back automatically
  • Menus and portfolio filters translate too, with no duplicated setup
  • Multilingual SEO tags (hreflang) added automatically
  • Localized date formats per language
  • Add your own language
• Clean and minimal design
• Clean code
• Fully Responsive Design
• Slider Revolution Responsive jQuery Plugin (Save $16)
• Media Boxes Portfolio – jQuery Grid Gallery Plugin (Save $17)
• Unlimited Page Variations
• Unlimited Portfolio Layouts
• Support self-hosted, youtube, vimeo video in popup gallery for portfolio
• Support content in popup gallery for portfolio
• Page
  • Blog
    • Grid layout
    • Full width style
    • Classic style
    • Minimal style
    • Creative style
  • Portfolio
    • Full width style
    • Classic style
    • Minimal style
    • Alternative style
    • Creative style
    • Is gutter or not
    • Type gallery or project
  • Post format support
    • Standard
    • Link
    • Audio ( HTML5 )
    • Video ( Embedded & HTML5 )
    • Quote
    • Gallery ( Slider & Tiled )
    • Image
• Supports Disqus comments
• Supports Google Analytics
• Supports Google Map
• Supports Google reCAPTCHA
• MailChimp Integrated
• MediaElement Video Player Integrated
• Ajax Subscription Form
• Social share links
• AJAX Load More
• Portfolio filtering based on categories
• Tags & Categories for Blog
• Ajax Search for Blog
• Working Ajax Contact Form (Without PHP)
• Based on Bootstrap v5.x
• SEO Friendly
• CSS3 Animations – Animate.css
• 64,000+ retina-ready icons (Font Awesome 7 Pro)
• Widget ready
• W3C Valid HTML
• Well documented
• and more features coming soon!

Note: Images and videos from demo site are not included. behance.net, unsplash.com

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Changelog

ver. 1.0.7 (23.08.2026)
  - compatible with latest version Hugo 0.165.0+ extended 
  - Now ships in 5 languages: English, German, Spanish, French and Italian
  - Language switcher in the header — dropdown or inline, full names or short codes
  - Every language gets its own content folder, so you can edit one without touching the rest
  - Translate only what changes — anything you leave out falls back to your main language
  - Menus and portfolio filters translate by name, with no duplicated setup
  - Footer text, author bio and SEO description can differ per language
  - Google now sees all translations of a page as one set and indexes them correctly

ver. 1.0.6 (24.03.2026)
  - compatible with latest version Hugo 0.158.0+ extended 
  - updated icons to Font Awesome 7 Pro
  - updated Bootstrap v5.3.8
  - fixed and checked the Google reCAPTCHA error: Invalid site key
  - improved Google Maps loading performance (async loading with callback initialization) 
  - replaced deprecated google.maps.Marker with modern Advanced Marker API
  - optimized and updated scripts
  - minor fixes and improvements

ver. 1.0.5 (22.05.2025)
  - support partial layouts on macOS and Linux systems
  - updated Bootstrap 5.3.6

ver. 1.0.4 (12.02.2025)
  - compatible with latest version Hugo 0.143.1 extended
  - support videos in slider (youtube, vimeo, html5)

ver. 1.0.3 (24.10.2024)
  - compatible with latest version Hugo 0.136.4 extended
  - updated Bootstrap 5
  - updated Font Awesome 6 Pro 
  - minor fixes and improvements

ver. 1.0.2 (16.04.2024)
  - support content in popup gallery for portfolio

ver. 1.0.1 (15.01.2024)
  - support self-hosted, youtube, vimeo video in popup gallery for portfolio
  - MediaElement video player integrated
  - minor fixes and improvements

ver. 1.0.0 (18.11.2023)
  - initial release