Simple blog - Gatsby Theme

Blog theme starter

✨ Features

• Theme UI for styling
• PrismJS highlighting
• Gatsby Image
• Posts in MDX
• Tags
• Static pages for non post types
• SEO friendly
• Fully customizable through gatsby-config.js, gatsby-plugin-theme-ui and shadow components
• Linting with ESLint and Stylelint
• Code formatting with Prettier

🚀 Installation

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

1. Install the theme

   # npm
   npm install --save gatsby-theme-simple-blog
   # yarn
   yarn add gatsby-theme-simple-blog

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

   module.exports = {
   	plugins: ["gatsby-theme-simple-blog"]
   };

3. Start your site

   gatsby develop

⚙ Configuration

module.exports = {
	plugins: [
		{
			resolve: "gatsby-theme-simple-blog",
			options: {
				basePath: "", // base url "/"
				tagsPath: "", // tags url "/tags"
				contentPath: "", // content url for posts"/content/posts"
				assetPath: "" //  assets url "/content/assets"
			}
		}
	],
	siteMetadata: {
		url: "https://abdessalam.dev",
		title: "Simple blog",
		author: "Abdessalam",
		description: "Simple blog theme starter",
		locale: "en",
		socialLinks: [
			// links displayed in footer
			{
				text: "Twitter",
				link: "https://twitter.com/gatsbyjs"
			},
			{
				text: "GitHub",
				link: "https://github.com/gatsbyjs"
			}
		],
		navLinks: [
			// links display in navbar
			{
				text: "Home",
				link: "/"
			},
			{
				text: "About",
				link: "/about"
			},
			{
				text: "Contact",
				link: "/contact"
			}
		],
		themeConfig: {
			themeSwitcher: true, // enable theme switcher
			showNavLinks: true, // show links from navLinks array in navbar
			loadMorePosts: false, // enable load more posts
			postsPerPage: 10, // posts to display per page
			postsIncrementBy: 5 // posts increment value
		}
	}
};

💅 Customization

You can override theme components using Component Shadowing

1. Create a folder with theme name gatsby-theme-simple-blog

2. Override any component you want by creating a new one and its css file, for example Nav.js and Nav.css

src/gatsby-theme-simple-blog/components/Nav.js

3. You can also override theme-ui theme style by creating gatsby-plugin-theme-ui folder and new object style or components or merge with theme file in index.js

src/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui

import baseTheme from "gatsby-theme-simple-blog/src/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui";
import merge from "lodash.merge";
export default merge({}, baseTheme, {
	colors: {},
	styles: {}
});

4. You can also override or add new global css styles in assets as they are imported in globalStyle.js which has an importAll helper

import { importAll } from "./helpers";
importAll(require.context("../assets/", true, /\.css$/));

✍ Writing content

Example of release post in content/posts/[POST_TITLE]/index.mdx

You can create pages by passing type to page

---
type: post
title: Another post
date: 2019-07-23
draft: false
media: ./img1.jpeg
author: Abdessalam
tags:
  - Hello
  - Post
  - Welcome
---

Content goes here

🧐 What's inside?

.
├── node_modules
├── src
|   ├── assets
|   ├── components
|   |   ├── Layout.js
|   |   ├── Layout.css
|   |   ├── ...
|   |   └── SEO.js
|   ├── gatsby-plugin-theme-ui
|   ├──templates
|   |   ├── page.js
|   |   ├── posts.js
|   |   ├── post.js
|   |   └── tag.js
|   └── utils
|        ├── globalStyle.js
|        └── helpers.js
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierrc.js
├── .eslintrc.js
├── .stylelintrc.config.js
├── package.json
├── README.md
└── LICENSE

👨🏻‍💻👩‍💻 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome !

Demo

Live demo

Author

Abdessalam BENHARIRA