Themes

[BennyHallett]

Should be able to easily switch themes for your site.

Might mean we need to create a theme directory and move the assets directory in there. Would still need an external images directory for post images.

- /themes
  - /theme_name
    - /assets/*
    - layout.(eex|haml)
  - /theme_two
    - /assets/*
    - layout.(eex|haml)

Themes should be able to be downloaded directly from Github.

Config might look like this for a local theme

---
theme: theme_name
  from: :local

And this for a github one

---
theme: theme_name
  from: :github
  repo: user/repo

Or some generic git repo

---
theme: theme_name
  from: :git
  repo: git://server/user/repo.git

[dch]

Good idea!

I am wondering if it might be possible to share, at least some part of, the structure used by hugo, and take advantage of some of the themes used there https://github.com/spf13/hugoThemes/ ?

I find with blog engines 90% of the usability hassle is getting a working theme together, and borrowing existing themes is the Best.

[BennyHallett]

Wow that's an awesome idea. Being able to share themes between blog engines would be a massive win.

I'll check out how hugos are structured and see how hard it would be to get that up and running.

[slogsdon]

Hugo's themes might be tricky to fully support as they rely on Go html templates.

Targeting platforms that use Liquid templates might be a bit easier. Jekyll is a big one that uses Liquid. There's been work on a Liquid-like template parser (fluid). It seems a bit outdated but could be brought up to speed with Elixir v1.0.0 and filters/missing Liquid features.

[BennyHallett]

I've implemented themes now. For now they still use the Eex templates so there's no compatibility with any other framework.

Check out the updated README.md if you're intereted.