Gatsby blog starter template named Lumen
gatsby-blog — Gatsby Blog Template
By andrkrn
A Gatsby-based Lumen blog starter template providing basic components for sidebar, navigation, posts, and pages, using inline CSS, the Lost grid, and Gutenberg typography.
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Includes six components: SiteSidebar, SiteNav, SiteLinks, SitePost, SitePage, ReadNext
Styles written with inline CSS
Uses peterramsing/lost as the grid foundation
Uses matejlatin/Gutenberg as the typography foundation
MIT licensed, allowing modification, commercial use, and distribution
Template Details
This is a Gatsby starter template for creating blogs, named Lumen. The README describes it as a blog starter project with a clear code structure that is easy to extend.
The template includes six simple components: SiteSidebar, SiteNav, SiteLinks, SitePost, SitePage, and ReadNext, covering common blog structures such as sidebar, navigation, links, posts, pages, and related reading. For styling, it uses inline CSS, with peterramsing/lost as the grid foundation and matejlatin/Gutenberg as the typography foundation.
Installation requires Gatsby to be installed first, then running gatsby new lumen plus the repository address via the CLI to create the project; development runs with gatsby develop. The repository also mentions a Statinamic port maintained by Khoa Nguyen.
Note that the repository materials and update time date back to 2016, and the README does not state compatibility with current Gatsby versions, dependency maintenance status, or production readiness; users should verify dependencies and build results themselves before use.
Is it right for your project?
Use Cases
- Building a personal blog site with Gatsby
- Using as a starter project to learn Gatsby blog structure
- Extending sidebar, navigation, and post page components on the existing foundation
Suitable For
- Developers familiar with basic Gatsby CLI usage
- Front-end developers who need a lightweight blog starter structure and will extend it themselves
- Users who accept verifying dependencies and compatibility on their own
Getting started & customization
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Install Gatsby first, then run gatsby new lumen plus the repository address to create the project
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Development environment run command is gatsby develop
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- GitHub
- Documentation and maintenance reference score
- Less documented · 53 / 100
- Technologies
- Gatsby · React
- Website type
- Blog
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- Repository update recorded
- 2016-08-23
- Screenshot last checked
- 2026-10-11
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Source file / repository# Lumen Gatsby starter for creating a blog ## Features + Inline CSS. + Clean and extensible code. + Six simple components: SiteSidebar, SiteNav, SiteLinks, SitePost, SitePage, ReadNext. + [peterramsing/lost](https://github.com/peterramsing/lost) as a base for Grid. + [matejlatin/Gutenberg](https://github.com/matejlatin/Gutenberg) as a base for Typography. ## Installing Install this starter (assuming Gatsby is installed) by running from your CLI: `gatsby new lumen https://github.com/wpioneer/gatsby-starter-lumen` ## Running in development `gatsby develop`  ## Ports [Statinamic port](https://github.com/thangngoc89/statinamic-theme-lumen) by [Khoa Nguyen](https://github.com/thangngoc89) ## License The MIT license. Copyright (c) 2016 Alexandr Shelepenok [ashk.io](http://ashk.io) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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