About

The blog theme you may fall in love with, coming to Hexo. Preview

Installation

Install

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$ git clone https://github.com/ppoffice/hexo-theme-icarus.git themes/icarus

Icarus requires Hexo 3.0 and above.

Enable

  1. Rename themes\icarus\_config.yml.example to themes\icarus\_config.yml;
  2. Copy themes\icarus\_config.yml.site.example to your hexo blog’s root directory and rename it to _config.yml;
  3. Copy themes\icarus\_source\* into your hexo blog’s directory source;
  4. Then modify theme setting in _config.yml to icarus.

Update

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cd themes/icarus
git pull

Configuration

Theme configuration example

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# Header
menu:
  Home: .
  Archives: archives
  Categories: categories # you need to add extra page to enable this, please see the config below.
  Tags: tags             # you need to add extra page to enable this, please see the config below.
  About: about
# Content
excerpt_link: Read More
fancybox: true
# Sidebar
sidebar: right
widgets:
- recent_posts
- category
- tag
- tagcloud
- archive
thumbnail: true
# Contacts
contacts:
  github: http://github.com/ppoffice/hexo-theme-icarus
  twitter: '#'
  facebook: '#'
  dribbble: '#'
  rss: atom.xml
# Links
links:
  Hexo: http://hexo.io
# Miscellaneous
google_analytics:
favicon: favicon.png
twitter:
google_plus:
fb_admins:
fb_app_id:
  • excerpt_link - Cooperate with <!-- more --> tag to show only part of the article in index pages.
  • fancybox - Enable Fancybox.
  • contacts - Your social network links, RSS link, etc.
  • widgets - Widgets displaying in sidebar.
  • thumbnail - Whether to show post thumbnails in the sidebar and archive pages.
  • links - Links displayed in the link widget.
  • google_analytics - Google Analytics ID.
  • favicon - Favicon path.

Site configuration example

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# Site
title: Icarus
subtitle:
description: Hexo theme - Icarus
author: PPOffice
author_title: 'Web Developer & Designer'
avatar: css/images/avatar.png
location: 'Harbin, China'
language: en
timezone:
...
# Disqus
disqus_shortname:
  • author - Your name.
  • author_title - Title to your occupation.
  • avatar - Your avatar image link.
  • location - Where you live in.
  • disqus_shortname - Your Disqus shortname.

Post Thumbnail & Banner

You can add a thumbnail and a banner to each post by adding the following lines into your post source files’ front-matter:

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title: Demo
date: 2015-01-01
...
# add those
thumbnail: http://example.com/thumbnail.jpg
banner: http://example.com/banner.jpg

Custom Categories & Tags Pages

To enable custom categories page and tags page, just copy the categories folder and tags folder under your theme’s _source foler into your site’s source folder. Then edit theme’s _config.yml and add the following lines:

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# Header
menu:
  ...
  Categories: categories # -> add this line
  Tags: tags # -> and add this line
  ...

Languages

English and Simplified Chinese are the default languages of the theme. You can add translations in the languages folder and change the default language in blog’s _config.yml.

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language: zh-CN

Features

Profile Sidebar

A nice place to show yourself. You can add your own information in your site’s _config.yml

Post Banner & Thumbnail

Thanks to atika, you can now add thumbnails and banners to every post to create better reading experience.

Responsive Layout

Icarus knows on what screen size you are browsering the website, and reorganize the layout to fit your device.

Custom Categories & Tags Pages

Get your categories and tags listed in single pages to make your blog more methodic.

Fancybox

Icarus uses Fancybox to showcase your photos. You can use Markdown syntax or fancybox tag plugin to add your photos.

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![img caption](img url)

Icarus provides 6 built-in widgets:

  • recent_posts
  • category
  • archives
  • tag
  • tagcloud
  • links

All of them are enabled by default. You can edit them in widget setting.

Development

Requirements

Grunt tasks