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An amazingly clean and simple blog theme.

This theme is great for anyone who simply wants to write about stuff and not worry about anything else. Minimal setup, clean layout - it just works.

Features

  • Uses the official RainLab.Blog plugin.
  • Very customizable. Text, avatar, font size, color scheme (blue, red, green, orange, pink, purple and gray) and even the social buttons in the menu section can easily be changed.
  • Pagination.
  • Mobile friendly.
  • Super cool buttons for sharing blog posts across popular social networks.
  • Blog post details and author name is automatically reflected in the page title and description. schema.org is used to structure blog posts for SEO.

Customization

After installing Simply Blog, you need to configure some settings, like your name, a short description etc. To do this, hit the Customize button right next to the Activate button on the Front-end theme page.

Here you can change things like Blog Name (required), Avatar Picture (required), Blog Description (required), Color Scheme, Social Links and more!

Live Demo

Check out the live demo here: https://oc-simply-blog.kadesign.no/

Index Page - Blue color scheme

Requirements

For Developers

This theme is very simple, and in many situations it might be a good fit for using it as a starter template. It can easily be extended to use Static Pages etc.

This theme uses Grunt to run build tasks.

Grunt Commands

  • default: Build for production
  • dev: Development mode
1.0.5

Fixes invalid syntax with latest YAML parser

Apr 15, 2016

1.0.4

Added a license (MIT)

Jan 04, 2016

1.0.3

Fixed Facebook icon for Social Buttons.

Oct 06, 2015

1.0.2

Fixes error caused by no featured images.

Jun 30, 2015

1.0.1

Added featured image to meta data.

Jun 19, 2015

1.0.0

First version of Simply Blog theme.

Jun 15, 2015