wzxha / cactus-dark

:cactus: A responsive, dark and simple theme for Hexo.

Cactus Dark

A responsive, dark and simple Hexo theme for a personal website.

🌵 Demo

Summary

• General
• Features
• Install
• Configuration
• License

General

• Version : 2.0
• Compatibility : Hexo 3 or later

Features

• Fully responsive
• Disqus
• Googe analytics
• Font Awesome icons
• Pick your own code highlighting scheme
• Configurable navigation menu
• Projects list
• Simplicity

Install

1. In the root directory:

   $ git clone https://github.com/probberechts/cactus-dark.git themes/cactus-dark
   $ npm install hexo-pagination --save
   

2. Change the theme property in the config.yml file.

   # theme: landscape
   theme: cactus-dark

3. Run: hexo generate and hexo server

Configuration

Navigation

Setup the navigation menu in the theme's _config.yml:

nav:
  Home: /
  About: /about/
  Writing: /archives/
  Projects: http://github.com/probberechts
  LINK_NAME: URL

Blog posts list on home page

You have two options for the list of blog posts on the home page:

• Show only the 5 most recent posts (default)

customize:
  show_all_posts: false
  post_count: 5

• Show all posts

customize:
  show_all_posts: true

Projects list

Create a projects file source/_data/projects.json.

[
    {
       "name":"Hexo",
       "url":"https://hexo.io/",
       "desc":"A fast, simple & powerful blog framework"
    },
    {
       "name":"Font Awesome",
       "url":"http://fontawesome.io/",
       "desc":"The iconic font and CSS toolkit"
    }
]

Social media links

Cactus Dark can automatically add links to your social media accounts. Therefore, update the theme's _config.yml:

customize:
  social_links:
    github: your-github-url
    twitter: your-twitter-url
    NAME: your-NAME-url

where NAME is the name of a Font Awesome icon.

RSS

Set the rss field in the theme's _config.yml to one of the following values:

1. rss: false will totally disable rss (default).
2. rss: atom.xml sets a specific feed link.
3. rss:leave empty to use the hexo-generator-feed plugin.

Analytics

Add you Google Analytics tracking_id to the theme's _config.yml.

plugins:
    gooogle_analytics: 'UA-49627206-1'            # Format: UA-xxxxxx-xx

Comments

First, create a site on Disqus: https://disqus.com/admin/create/.

Next, update the theme's _config.yml file:

plugins:
    disqus_shortname: SITENAME

where SITENAME is the name you gave your site on Disqus.

Code Highlighting

Pick one of the available colorschemes and add it to the theme's _config.yml:

customize:
    highlight: COLORSCHEME_NAME

License

MIT