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spress-add-ons/clean-blog-theme

Clean blog theme for Spress design by Start Bootstrap

Tuesday, June 20, 2017
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The README.md

Clean blog theme

Clean blog theme is a ported theme to Spress designed by Start Bootstrap., _(*1)

Live demo., _(*2)

Spresso theme preview , _(*3)

Features

Fully responsive.
Distraction free blog text optimized for legibility.
Support for tags and categories in posts.
Contact form powered by getsimpleform.
Comments powered by Disqus.
Code highlighted thanks to highlight.js.

Installation

You can create a site based on Clean blog or install this one as a theme of a pre-existing site., _(*4)

Requirements: * Spress >= 2.2.0, _(*5)

Creating a new site based on this theme

Performs the following command and clean-blog theme will be installed in mysite folder:, _(*6)

$ spress new:site mysite spress-add-ons/clean-blog-theme

Install as a theme

Go to your site folder and performs the following command:, _(*7)

$ spress add:plugin spress-add-ons/clean-blog-theme

And add this line to the config.yml file of your site:, _(*8)

themes:
    name: "spress-add-ons/clean-blog-theme"

How to update?

You can get the latest version of Clean blog theme with just run the following command:, _(*9)

$ spress update:plugin

Layouts

Refers to files within the ./src/layouts directory, that define the architecture of the content., _(*10)

default.html: The base layout. The derived layouts inject their contents into this file at the line that says {{ page.content }}.
page.html: Layout for pages.
post.html: Layout for posts. They are located at ./src/content/posts.
collection.html: Layout used by collection pages: categories.html and tags.html.

Includes

Refers to snippets of code within the ./src/includes directory. These ones can be inserted in layouts and pages., _(*11)

head.html: Defines the content of <head></head> in default layout.
footer.html: Defines the default footer section.
nav.html: Defines de top-menu based on pages with title.
paginator.html: Defines the pagination of the content.

Configuration

Comments

Comments are powered by Disqus and they need a disqus shortname. To get it, you need to create an account at this service. It's free., _(*12)

comments:
  enabled: true
  disqus_shortname: "your-shortname"

The top menu is composed by each of pages with title attribute. e.g: ./src/content/about.md:, _(*13)

title: "About me"

Contact form

The contact form is a AJAX form configured in config.yml:, _(*14)

forms:
    contact:
        getsimpleform_api_token:

You need a API key from getsimpleform service. It's free., _(*15)

Writing a post

To create a new post, runs new:post command from Spress:, _(*16)

$ spress new:post

Each post could has a header and thumbnail image. You can configure your image and some data about it:, _(*17)

header_img:
  url: "assets/img/post-bg-07.jpg"
  author: "Yuri Samoilov"
  author_url: "https://flic.kr/p/mjhDwB"

Thumbnail images

The index.html page can display a thumbnail image for each post. This kind of images must be located at ./src/content/assets/img folder and the image may has the dimentions 100x100 px., _(*18)

At the thumb_img key you can set the name of the image file like this:, _(*19)