Alpha Dust Hexo Blog Theme

Check out the demo.

This theme was developed from scratch by myself just for fun. It is a glowy futuristic theme, hope you will find a use for it :)

Features Overview

• Responsive
• Disqus comments
• Google Analytics
• Tags Support
• Responsive Images
• Responsive YouTube and Vimeo videos
• Image Gallery
• Social Accounts configuration
• Pagination
• Pages
• Only one category per post
• Stylus CSS preprocessor
• ejs HTML templates

External libraries used

• Bootstrap 4 Alpha
• FeatherLight.js (Gallery)
• jQuery
• GSAP
• Font Awesome

Installation

Install the theme

Install the theme by using:

$ git clone https://github.com/klugjo/hexo-theme-alpha-dust themes/alpha-dust

Then update your blog's main _config.yml to set the theme to alpha-dust:

i.e:

# Extensions
## Plugins: http://hexo.io/plugins/
## Themes: http://hexo.io/themes/
theme: alpha-dust

Theme Configuration

The theme's global configuration is done in /themes/hexo-theme-alpha-dust/_config.yml.

Menu

The menu is configured in the theme's _config.yml.

# Header
menu:
  Home: /
  Archives: /archives
  About: /about.html

The object key is the label and the value is the path.

Blog's Logo Image Source

The blog's logo (above the title) is configured in the theme's _config.yml.

The value should be a valid Font Awesome class

# Logo (Font Awesome Class)
fa_logo: fa-cube

Page's and post's logo is configured in front matter and overrides blog's logo if defined.

---
title: Post's title
logoIcon: fa-pencil-square
---

Footer About Section Text

The About section's text in the footer is configured in the theme's _config.yml. HTML allowed.

# Footer About Text
footer_about: "Make Websites. Make Magic."

Footer Copyright Section Text

The Copyright section's text in the footer is configured in the theme's _config.yml. HTML allowed.

#Footer Copyright Line
footer_copyright: "@Untitled. All right reserved | Design & Hexo <a href=\"http://www.codeblocq.com/\">Jonathan Klughertz</a>"

Default post title

The default post title (used when no title is specified) is configured in the theme's _config.yml.

# Default post title
default_post_title: Untitled

Archive Date Format

You can change the date format for the archive page if you so desire

# Archive Date Format
archive_date_format: MMM YYYY

Disqus Comments

The disqus shortname is specified in the theme's _config.yml.

# Comments.
comments:
  # Disqus comments
  disqus_shortname: klugjotest

Google Analytics

The Google Analytics Tracking ID is configured in the theme's _config.yml.

# Google Analytics Tracking ID
google_analytics:

Social Account

Setup the links to your social pages in the theme's _config.yml. Links are in the footer. No link = No icon.

# Social Accounts
twitter_url: https://twitter.com/?lang=en
facebook_url: https://www.facebook.com/
instagram_url: https://www.instagram.com/
dribble_url: https://dribbble.com/
github_url: https://github.com/klugjo/hexo-theme-alpha-dust
googleplus_url: https://plus.google.com/
behance_url: https://www.behance.net/
fivehundredpx_url: https://500px.com/
email_url: \#
rss_url: \#

Tags page.

Follow these steps to add a tags page that contains all the tags in your site.

• Create a page named tags

$ hexo new page "tags"

• Edit the newly created page and set page type to tags in the front matter.

title: All tags
type: "tags"

• Add tags to the menu in the theme _config.yml:

# Header
menu:
  Home: /
  Archives: /archives
  About: /about.html
  Tags: /tags

Categories page.

Follow these steps to add a categories page that contains all the categories in your site.

• Create a page named categories

$ hexo new page "categories"

• Edit the newly created page and set page type to categories in the front matter.

title: All tags
type: "categories"

• Add tags to the menu in the theme _config.yml:

# Header
menu:
  Home: /
  Archives: /archives
  About: /about.html
  Categories: /categories

Creator

This theme was created by Jonathan Klughertz, check out my github and blog for more info.

Bugs

If you have a question, feature request or a bug you need me to fix, please click here to file an issue.

License

MIT