@leomanlapera/gatsby-theme-minimal-blog v0.0.13

The Gatsby Minimal Blog theme

A Gatsby theme for creating a blog inspired by gatsby-theme-blog and using gatsby-theme-blog-core, theme-ui.

Installation

For a new site

If you're creating a new site and want to use the blog theme, you can use the minimal blog theme starter. This will generate a new site that pre-configures use of the minimal blog theme.

gatsby new my-minimal-blog https://github.com/leomanlapera/gatsby-starter-minimal-blog/

For an existing site

If you already have a site you'd like to add the blog theme to, you can manually configure it.

1. Install the minimal blog theme

npm install @leomanlapera/gatsby-theme-minimal-blog

or

yarn add @leomanlapera/gatsby-theme-minimal-blog

2. Add the configuration to your gatsby-config.js file

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `@leomanlapera/gatsby-theme-minimal-blog`,
      options: {
        // basePath defaults to `/`
        basePath: `/blog`,
      },
    },
  ],
}

3. 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.

4. 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

Usage

Theme options

Example configuration

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `@leomanlapera/gatsby-theme-minimal-blog`,
      options: {
        // basePath defaults to `/`
        basePath: `/blog`,
      },
    },
  ],
}

Additional configuration

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
    social: [
      {
        name: `Twitter`,
        url: `https://twitter.com/leomanlapera`,
      },
      {
        name: `GitHub`,
        url: `https://github.com/leomanlapera`,
      },
    ],
  },
}

Blog Post Fields

The following are the defined blog post fields based on the node interface in the schema

Shadowing

Please refer to this link from gatsby docs Shadowing in Gatsby Themes.