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hexo-theme-iris — Hexo Blog Template

By giuem

hexo-theme-iris is a minimalist Hexo theme for Chinese blogs, licensed under MIT and rendered with EJS. After installation, copy the example configuration and set theme to iris.

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Minimalist Hexo theme for Chinese blogs, MIT licensed

Uses EJS template rendering, requires hexo-renderer-ejs

Provides _config.example.yml example configuration, ready to copy and modify

README recommends pairing with generator plugins for homepage, archives, categories, and tags

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hexo-theme-iris is a minimalist Hexo theme for Chinese blogs, maintained by giuem and licensed under MIT. The theme uses EJS for template rendering, so hexo-renderer-ejs is a required dependency; the README also recommends installing generator plugins for the homepage, archives, categories, and tags, as well as plugins related to the crossorigin attribute, critical CSS inlining, and HTML minification.

Installation involves cloning the theme into Hexo's themes/iris directory, copying _config.example.yml to _config.yml and modifying it as needed, then setting theme to iris in the site root _config.yml. A demo site is provided, showing actual screenshots of the desktop homepage, mobile homepage, and an archive inner page.

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Use Cases

Building a personal blog primarily in Chinese with Hexo
Sites that want a minimalist presentation of the homepage and archive list
Hexo projects that need to quickly integrate the theme by referring to the example configuration

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Blog authors using Hexo and familiar with _config.yml configuration
Chinese blogs that prefer minimalist typography and text-focused content
Users willing to install the EJS renderer and recommended plugins according to the README

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Clone the theme into Hexo's themes/iris directory
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Copy _config.example.yml to _config.yml and modify as needed
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Set theme: iris in the site root _config.yml
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Install the required plugin hexo-renderer-ejs, and optionally install the generator and optimization plugins recommended in the README
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Source platforms: GitHub
Documentation and maintenance reference score: Partly documented · 72 / 100
Technologies: Hexo
Website type: Blog

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# hexo-theme-iris

> A minimalist Hexo theme for Chinese blog.

## Installation

1. Download the theme to your Hexo theme folder;

``` bash
git clone https://github.com/giuem/hexo-theme-iris.git themes/iris
```

2. Configure theme;

```bash
cd themes/iris
cp _config.example.yml _config.yml
vi _config.yml
```

3. Specify `theme` property to `iris`.

```yaml
# <hexo root>/_config.yml
theme: iris
```

## Hexo Plugins

The following Hexo plugins is necessary:

* [hexo-renderer-ejs](https://www.npmjs.com/package/hexo-renderer-ejs)

Some plugins is not necessary, but I strongly recommand:

* [hexo-generator-index](https://www.npmjs.com/package/hexo-generator-index)
* [hexo-generator-archive](https://www.npmjs.com/package/hexo-generator-archive)
* [hexo-generator-category](https://www.npmjs.com/package/hexo-generator-category)
* [hexo-generator-tag](https://www.npmjs.com/package/hexo-generator-tag)
* [hexo-filter-crossorigin](https://www.npmjs.com/package/hexo-filter-crossorigin): Append [crossorigin](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/CORS_settings_attributes) attribute to HTML elements.
* [hexo-critical-css](https://github.com/john-whitley/hexo-critical-css): Inline Critical CSS.
* [hexo-html-minifier](https://github.com/hexojs/hexo-html-minifier): Minify HTML files.

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