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hexo-theme-snark — Hexo Blog Template

By Litreily

hexo-theme-snark is a Hexo blog theme with a Lofter style, released under the MIT license, featuring built-in archive, category, and tag pages, local search, code highlighting, and Valine comments.

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A Hexo blog theme with a Lofter style, using Pug templates and Sass styles

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Built-in common pages such as archives, categories, tags, and about

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Supports local search, Fancybox image viewing, and Fontawesome v4.7.0 icons

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Code highlighting can be either Google Code Prettify or Highlight.js (default)

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The comment system currently only supports Valine, requiring parameters in the configuration

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Code is released under the MIT license, allowing free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution

Template Details

hexo-theme-snark is a theme developed by Litreily for the Hexo static blog engine. The repository describes it as "An hexo theme with lofter style," and the demo site is https://www.litreily.top/. The theme uses Pug templates and Sass styles. Installation requires additionally installing hexo-renderer-pug and hexo-renderer-sass, and disabling Hexo's default code highlighting in the blog configuration.

In terms of features, the theme provides common pages such as archives, categories, tags, and about, and supports local search, Fancybox image viewing, copyright notices, Fontawesome v4.7.0 icons, Baidu Analytics, and two code highlighting options: Google Code Prettify and Highlight.js (default). The comment system currently only supports Valine, and Valine parameters must be filled in the configuration file. RSS, sitemap, and similar features are provided by optional Hexo plugins and are not included in the theme itself.

Usage limitations: The theme depends on Pug and Sass renderers; failure to install them will cause build failures. Comments only support Valine; other comment systems are not mentioned in the README. Local search requires installing the hexo-generator-search plugin. The code is released under the MIT license, allowing free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution, but third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked against their respective licenses, and external services such as domains and hosting may incur additional charges.

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Use Cases

  • Building a personal blog with Hexo and wanting a Lofter-style appearance
  • Blogs that need common pages such as archives, categories, and tags, plus local search functionality
  • Hexo sites using Valine as the comment system
  • Blogs that need Baidu Analytics and copyright notice features

Suitable For

  • Users familiar with basic Hexo operations who can install renderers and plugins themselves
  • Blog authors who prefer the Lofter style and want to quickly apply an existing theme
  • Sites using Valine comments and accepting its configuration approach
  • Personal blogs that need basic features such as local search and image viewing

Getting started & customization

Use these recorded setup notes alongside the repository instructions for your chosen version.

  1. 1

    Clone the theme into the themes/snark directory via git clone

  2. 2

    Install the two renderers hexo-renderer-pug and hexo-renderer-sass

  3. 3

    Disable Hexo's default code highlighting in the blog's _config.yml

  4. 4

    Create common pages such as archives, categories, tags, and about as needed

  5. 5

    RSS, local search, and sitemap require installing their respective Hexo generator plugins

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Usage conditions & limitations

Free to use · keep license notice

This entry covers the free version under the MIT license in the public repository; the free scope applies to that version's code and does not imply that external services or third-party assets are free.

Must comply with when using

  • The code of this version may be used, modified, used commercially, and distributed for free.
  • When distributing copies or substantial portions of the code, retain the original author's copyright notice and the full MIT license notice.
  • The code is provided as is; warranties and limitations of liability are governed by the original license and applicable law.

Additional costs & items to verify

  • The comment system currently only supports Valine; other comment systems are not provided. Using comments requires configuring parameters as required by Valine.
  • The theme depends on the Pug renderer; failure to install hexo-renderer-pug will cause build failures.
  • The theme depends on the Sass renderer; failure to install hexo-renderer-sass will cause build failures.
  • Local search requires additionally installing the hexo-generator-search plugin; the theme itself does not include this feature.
  • RSS requires additionally installing the hexo-generator-feed plugin; the theme itself does not provide it.
  • Sitemap requires additionally installing the hexo-generator-sitemap plugin; the theme itself does not provide it.
  • Using Valine comments requires filling in Valine parameters in the configuration file, which may involve external service accounts.
  • Demo images, fonts, icons, and other third-party assets must be checked against their respective licenses and cannot be judged solely by the code's MIT license.
  • External services such as domains, hosting, databases, payments, or AI may incur additional charges.
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge

Original License Text

Comment System (Only Valine as for now)

Original README

npm install hexo-renderer-pug --save

Original README

npm install hexo-renderer-sass --save

Original README

npm install hexo-generator-search --save

Original README

npm install hexo-generator-feed --save

Original README

npm install hexo-generator-sitemap --save

Original README

please modify valine parameters in `_config.xml`

Original README
https://github.com/Litreily/hexo-theme-snark/blob/master/LICENSEhttps://github.com/Litreily/hexo-theme-snark/blob/master/README.md

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Documentation and maintenance reference score
More documented · 87 / 100
Technologies
Hexo
Website type
Blog
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# hexo-theme-snark

An hexo theme with lofter style, it's very simple and cool!

## Features

- Baidu Analytics
- Code Highlight
    - Google Code Prettify
    - Highlight.js (`default`)
- Comment System (Only Valine as for now)
- General pages
  - Archives
  - Categories
  - Tags
- Copyright Notice
- Fancybox image viewer
- Fontawesome v4.7.0 icons
- Local Search
- Suitable for screens of different sizes

## Installation

``` sh
git clone https://github.com/litreily/hexo-theme-snark.git themes/snark
npm install hexo-renderer-pug --save
npm install hexo-renderer-sass --save
```

then disable default highlight in blog/_config.yml

``` yml
highlight:
  enable: false
  line_number: false
  auto_detect: false
  tab_replace:
```

### Add General Pages

For beginner of `hexo`, you may need to know how to create general pages like `archives`, `categories`, `tags` and so on. If you already know that, please skip this step.

```bash
hexo new page archives
hexo new page categories
hexo new page tags
hexo new page about
```

Running above commands and you will get result as below (hidden something not related).

```bash
$ tree -L 2 source
source
├── _posts
├── about
│   └── index.md
├── archives
│   └── index.md
├── categories
│   └── index.md
├── index.md
└── tags
    └── index.md
```

### Optional

You may need install some hexo plugins as below

- `npm install hexo-generator-feed --save` for RSS
- `npm install hexo-generator-search --save` for local search
- `npm install hexo-generator-sitemap --save` for sitemap

You can add your customized css to `source/css/customize.scss`, then it will be load to `head` of blog

### Comment System

- [Valine](https://valine.js.org/) please modify valine parameters in `_config.xml`
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