🦎 Mabuya

Mabuya is a minimal Zola theme focused on helping you build an elegant, fast, lightweight, and SEO-ready blog. Put your work front and center with Mabuya as the base of your project.

Check out the live demo of the theme.

Table of Contents

• 🦎 Mabuya
  • Table of Contents
  • Screenshot
  • Background
  • Features and Improvements
  • Running the Site Locally
  • Customization
  • Reporting Issues
  • Contributing
  • Attributions
  • License

Screenshot

Background

While searching for themes, I came across Zola Tale. Sadly, the project's last update was on Dec 4, 2021. Shortly after, I decided to fork the project and add my own touches to it.

The name Mabuya comes from the Mabuya hispaniolae, a possibly extinct¹ species of skink endemic to the Dominican Republic, my home country.

Features and Improvements

While working on the theme, I have added new functionality and made many quality of life improvements. Here's a short list:

• Refactored stylesheets.
• Added Dark theme and color theme toggle.
• Added new footer navigation.
• Created a custom GitHub Action to deploy Zola sites faster than any other GitHub Actions using Docker.
• Refined page transitions from desktop to mobile and viceversa.
• Centralized custom variables–made it easier to customize the site's colors.
• Addressed PR #7 fixing the pagination problem present in the original Zola theme.
• Addressed Issue #4 fixing custom text not being used correctly.
• Addressed (temporarily) Issue #1 by removing the erroneous pinned marker.
• Optimized for speed and accessibility. Subtle color changes to make the text more readable, etc.
• Many other small improvements...

Running the Site Locally

Tips that will help you develop and preview the site locally.

Requirements

Before using the theme, you need to install Zola ≥ 0.18.0.

Quick Start

# clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:semanticdata/mabuya.git
# change directory into the cloned folder
cd mabuya
# serve the site locally
zola serve
# open http://127.0.0.1:1111/ in the browser

For more detailed instructions, visit the Documentation page about installing and using themes.

Useful Commands

A short list of commands that will help you develop your own version of the theme.

Command	Description
zola init <repo-name>	Initiate new Zola site
zola build	Build only
zola serve	Build and Serve

Customization

You can changed the configuration, templates and content yourself. Refer to the config.toml, and templates files for ideas. In most cases you only need to modify the contents of config.toml to customize the appearance of your blog. Make sure to visit tyhe Zola Documentation.

Custom CSS Styles

Adding custom CSS is as easy as adding your styles to sass/_custom.scss. This is made possible because SCSS files are backwards compatible with CSS. This means you can type normal CSS code into a SCSS file and it will be valid.

Reporting Issues

We use GitHub Issues as the official bug tracker for Mabuya. Please search existing issues. It’s possible someone has already reported the same problem.

If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, open a new issue.

Contributing

We'd love your help! Please see CONTRIBUTING to learn about the kinds of contributions we're looking for.

Please read and be aware of the Code of Conduct before contributing.

Attributions

Mabuya is a fork of Tale, which itself is a port of the Jekyll theme Tale which is now archived.

The icons used throughout the site are kindly provided by UXWing. Read their license.

License

Source code in this repository is available under the MIT License.

Footnotes

1. Mabuya hispaniolae's conservation status is Critically endangered, possibly extinct. ↩