Régis Philibert is a Lead Developer based in Montreal with 11 years of web development experience, specializing in front-end design and JAMstack architectures. Formerly rooted in WordPress, he now focuses on Hugo and static-site tooling, bringing practical improvements to popular themes like Ananke and Novela. His contributions show a knack for refactoring templates, simplifying asset pipelines (introducing optional Hugo Pipes), and improving UX and SEO for distributed themes. At The New Dynamic he leads site builds and champions modern static workflows while continuing to write about his work and learn new web techniques. He combines a tester’s attention to detail from a long QA background with hands-on full-stack execution, making him strong at both polish and reliability. Outside of client work he actively shapes open-source Hugo projects, demonstrating an interest in tooling quality and long-term maintainability.
Contributions:9 releases, 26 reviews, 69 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Régis primarily contributed to the Hugo theme's front-end development by refactoring and enhancing its styling components. They addressed issues related to CSS processing by dropping PostCSS and introduced optional asset processing through Hugo Pipes. They also modified HTML templates and social sharing functionalities, along with fixing display and layout issues, improving the theme's overall UX.
Novela, the simplest way to start publishing with Hugo and Forestry.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:22 commits, 3 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Régis primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the Hugo theme's logic and templates. Their work included fixing date formatting, enhancing author listing, and refactoring the article list. The user also added a subscription shortcode and restructured the templates for authors, including pagination and SEO improvements. Additionally, they made the repository ready for distribution as a theme.
hugohugo-theme
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