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Hexo Theme Freemind

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Updated: 27 Mar 2023
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Most powerful bootstrap theme for hexo.

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Overview

The Hexo-Theme-Freemind is a theme designed for the Hexo blogging platform that aims to fully utilize the power of Bootstrap. It offers a traditional and comfortable two-column layout, along with various Bootstrap tag plugins for text, buttons, labels, badges, and alert messages. It also includes a built-in local search engine and offers a range of Bootswatch color themes to choose from. The theme allows for pinning articles to the top of the index page and includes a built-in comment system. It supports customization through the use of configuration settings in the _config.yml file.

Features

  • Bootstrap integration for easy implementation of Twitter Bootstrap
  • Traditional two-column layout for comfortable blog reading
  • Tag plugins for text color, buttons, labels, badges, and alert messages
  • Built-in local search engine for easy content discovery
  • Bootswatch color themes for customization options
  • Option to pin articles to the top of the first index page
  • Built-in comment system for easy engagement with readers

Installation

To install the Hexo-Theme-Freemind, follow these steps:

  1. Install Hexo and ensure it is version 3.0 or higher.
  2. Install Hexo-tag-bootstrap version 0.0.8 or higher (optional).
  3. Install Hexo-generator-search (optional).
  4. Install Hexo-recommended-posts (optional).

To create additional pages like Categories, Tags, and About, follow these steps:

  1. Manually create an index.html file at the source/categories/ folder with the desired contents for the Categories page.
  2. Use a similar process to create Tags and About pages, but use the “tags” and “page” layouts respectively.

Alternatively, you can create an About page using a specific command.

To enable the theme and customize its settings, modify the _config.yml file with the desired changes for the following configurations:

  • Slogan: The slogan display at the index page.
  • Theme: Which color theme to use.
  • Inverse: Whether to use the inverse navbar color.
  • Menu: Navigation menu.
  • Links: Reference links at the links widget.
  • Widgets: Widgets displaying in the sidebar.
  • RSS: RSS link.
  • Fancybox: Enable Fancybox.
  • Duoshuo_shortname: DuoShuo ID (optional).
  • Recommended_posts: Enable recommended posts.
  • Analytics: Analytics ID (supports Google Analytics and Baidu Tongji).
  • Swiftype_key: Swifttype key to enable local searching.
  • Bdshare: Baidu share button at the bottom of the article.
  • Jiathis: Jiathis share button at the bottom of the article.
  • Comment_js: Settings for comment.js, including type, user, repo, client_id, client_secret, and count.
  • Comment_gitalk: Settings for Gitalk.

Summary

The Hexo-Theme-Freemind is a Bootstrap-powered theme for the Hexo blogging platform. It offers a range of features including Bootstrap integration, a two-column layout, tag plugins, a built-in local search engine, Bootswatch color themes, pinning articles, and a built-in comment system. Installation is straightforward, and customization options are available through the _config.yml file. This theme is suitable for bloggers who want a clean and responsive design with the power of Bootstrap.