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gatsby-theme-blog-core
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A Gatsby theme for creating a blog child theme. It includes all of the data structures you need to get up and running building a blog and includes no additional theming or style opinions.
If you're creating a new site and want to use the blog theme, you can use the blog theme starter. This will generate a new site that pre-configures use of the blog theme.
gatsby new my-themed-blog https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog-theme-core
npm install gatsby-theme-blog-core
gatsby-config.js
file// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
plugins: [
{
resolve: `gatsby-theme-blog-core`,
options: {
// basePath defaults to `/`
basePath: `/blog`,
},
},
],
}
Add blog posts to your site by creating md
or mdx
files inside /content/posts
.
Note that if you've changed the default
contentPath
in the configuration, you'll want to add your markdown files in the directory specified by that path.
Run your site using gatsby develop
and navigate to your blog posts. If you used the above configuration, your URL will be http://localhost:8000/blog
Key | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|
basePath | / | Root url for all blog posts |
contentPath | content/posts | Location of blog posts |
assetPath | content/assets | Location of assets |
mdxOtherwiseConfigured | false | Set this flag true if gatsby-plugin-mdx is already configured for your site. |
excerptLength | 140 | Length of the auto-generated excerpt of a blog post |
// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
plugins: [
{
resolve: `gatsby-theme-blog-core`,
options: {
// basePath defaults to `/`
basePath: `/blog`,
},
},
],
}
In addition to the theme options, there are a handful of items you can customize via the siteMetadata
object in your site's gatsby-config.js
// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
siteMetadata: {
// Used for the site title and SEO
title: `My Blog Title`,
// Used to provide alt text for your avatar
author: `My Name`,
// Used for SEO
description: `My site description...`,
// Used for social links in the root footer
siteUrl: `https://example.com`,
// Used for resolving images in social cards
social: [
{
name: `Twitter`,
url: `https://twitter.com/gatsbyjs`,
},
{
name: `GitHub`,
url: `https://github.com/gatsbyjs`,
},
],
},
}
The following are the defined blog post fields based on the node interface in the schema
Field | Type |
---|---|
id | String |
title | String |
body | String |
slug | String |
date | Date |
tags | String[] |
keywords | String[] |
excerpt | String |
image | String |
imageAlt | String |
socialImage | String |
FAQs
The core theme for gatsby-theme-blog
The npm package gatsby-theme-blog-core receives a total of 426 weekly downloads. As such, gatsby-theme-blog-core popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that gatsby-theme-blog-core demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 14 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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