Theme Chromate
The Chromate theme is a new Hexo theme with support for Podcasts.
It has the following feature:
- Simple and Lightweight: There are no redundant setting items, no references to a large number of third-party libraries, which ensures that it can be loaded and displayed as soon as possible.
- Responsive: The theme is built on the Bulma CSS framework, which ensures that it can be displayed normally and beautifully on most devices.
- Full Support for Podcasts: Without too much configuration, you can easily publish a Podcast (details below ).
- Dark mode support: Dark mode browsing on most of browsers/operating systems.
Usage
Take a look at the comments in the sample configuration file
_config.yaml and fill in them for using Chromate.For general Bloggers
Nothing special, just write the article as usual:
hexo new post you-post-name-hereFor adding a thumbnail to your post, add this to your post file header:
thumbnail: 'Thumbnail-Image-Link'Additionally, just DO NOT use
podcast in post configuration fields!For Podcasters
Add these fields in your post configuration area to define a Podcast type post:
podcast:
subtitle: A test Podcast EP # Subtitle of your EP
authors: ['Doge-Gui', 'Cool Guy'] # Authors
cover: https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2018/03/28/19/21/easter-3270234_1280.jpg # Cover image will shown in web-audio-player
duration: 64 # Continuous time
media:
url: https://audionautix.com/Music/BackToTheWood.mp3 # Media link
size: 1020453 # Media size in byte
type: audio/mpeg # Media type
chapters: # Chapters info for auto generating timeline. [Optional]
- ['First Chapter', 13]
- ['Second Chapter', 30]
- ['Third Chapter', 45]
- ['Forth Chapter', 60]
references: # References info for auto generating references. [Optional]
- ['Post Thumbnail', 'https://pixabay.com/zh/illustrations/sunrise-ocean-ship-sun-sunset-5863751/']
- ['Podcast Cover', 'https://pixabay.com/zh/illustrations/easter-easter-bunny-rabbit-ears-3270234/']
- ['Back To The Woods', 'https://audionautix.com/free-music/country']Please DO NOT modify these fields name.
Then you can get:
Different homepage guide buttons
For common types of post, you can see the Continue Reading guide button on the homepage; for a Podcast, Listen Now will be displayed.
Automatically generated audio player
For Podcast post, you only need to fill in the Meta meta information according to the format, and a player will be automatically generated in the article (Special thanks to Shikwasa!).
If you completed
chapters field, the audio player will also shown with Chapters List :)Rendering of meta-information inner article
After you fill in the Meta information, you can use the following tags to call the automatically rendered author information, citation information, and timeline:
Timeline
{% timeline %}
References
{% references %}
Authors
{% authors %}
Automatically generated RSS subscription
We know that RSS is important for podcasts, but configuring them manually is a boring thing, so in Chromate, you only need to fill in the configuration file, and the RSS subscription will be automatically generated.
Important: If you want to open support for auto generating rss with podcasts, please install a plugin manually under your Hexo project folder:
npm install podcast --saveThanks
The theme uses the following third-party resources:
During the production of the theme, the source code of the following themes was referenced: