Gatsby Theme Writer

This is a minimal blogging theme intended to focus on content and readability.

See the live demo

Installation

To use this theme in your Gatsby sites, follow these instructions:

1. Install the theme

   npm install --save @beccanelson/gatsby-theme-writer

2. Add the theme to your gatsby-config.js:

   module.exports = {
     plugins: ["@beccanelson/gatsby-theme-writer"],
   }

3. Start your site

   gatsby develop

Configuration

You can configure your site metadata in gatsby-config.js. Optionally, you can also configure your basePath, contentPath, and assetsPath.

Example configuration:

module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    title: "My Gatsby Site",
    author: "Becca Bailey",
    description:
      "A short description of your site. This will appear in your bio.",
    siteUrl: "http://my-site.com",
    social: {
      twitter: "my-twitter",
      instagram: "my-instagram",
    },
  },
}

If you would like to add an avatar, the bio component will look for a file named avatar.[jpeg|jpg|gif|png]. This should go in your assets folder.

Adding Blog Posts

This theme currently supports markdown posts. For more information about markdown syntax, check out this guide.

To keep a post organized witn its assets, we can create a folder structure like this:

content/
  blog/
    my-first-post/
      index.md
      featured.jpg

In addition to the markdown content, each post needs frontmatter in order to display and categorize it.

---
title: My First Blog Post!
date: "2019-07-28"
featuredImage: "./featured.jpg"
featured: true
---

For more information, see the demo/ in this repository.

Featured Posts

To add a post to the featured posts module, set featured to true in the post frontmatter. Also, for best results make sure you have set a featured image for the post. This module supports up to two featured posts at a time. Note: these posts will still appear in the main posts list as well.

Contributing

If you are using this theme, I appreciate issues and pull requests!