Mercury

Modern and minimalistic blog theme powered by Zola.
See a live preview here.

Fork of the Apollo theme.

_{^{Named after the greek god of trickery and thieves}}

Installation

• Download the theme

git submodule add https://github.com/flxzt/mercury themes/mercury

• Add theme = "mercury" to your config.toml

• Copy the example content

cp -r themes/mercury/content content

Features

Site configuration

Enable analytics with Goatcounter:

[extra.analytics]
enabled = true
goatcounter_user = "your_user"
goatcounter_host = "goatcounter.com"    # default: goatcounter.com

Add a website favicon:

[extra]
favicon = "/images/favicon.png"

Set a color scheme:

[extra]
theme = "auto"      # either `auto`, `dark` or `light`

Use CDN for fonts:

[extra]
use_cdn = true

Enable math rendering inline with $ and blocks with $$ pairs through Temml:

[extra]
temml = true

Enable the elevator:

[extra]
elevator = true

Social buttons can be added. The available icon names are the file names without .svg in static/social_icons/.

[extra]
socials = [
    { name = "rss", url = "https://mercury.flxzt.net/atom.xml", icon = "rss" },
    { name = "github", url = "https://github.com/flxzt/mercury", icon = "github" },
]

Add stylesheets to override the theme. The file paths are from the root of the generated site. In this example, the two CSS files would be in the static folder.

[extra]
stylesheets = [
    "override.css",
    "something_else.css"
]

Add a footer:

[extra.footer]
enabled = true
# You can either set the footer text here or overwrite the footer.html template for custom html
text = "John Doe - © 2022"

Pages

To enable a table of contents, add this to the page frontmatter:

[extra]
toc = true

Or a tldr at the start:

[extra]
tldr = "This page is way too long!"

Pages can have a banner image:

[extra]
banner_image = "/absolute/path/to/image.png"

Specify that a page is an URL link instead of content.

[extra]
link_to = "https://project.page.com"

Sections

Specify that a section is a direct child of the index and its pages should appear there:

[extra]
show_in_index = true

If this is set, it is possible to specify how many pages should be shown:

[extra]
index_n_pages = 7

To display the subsection as cards instead of a pages list, use:

index_cards = true

The order of the subsections is determined by the weight specified in the subsection:

weight = 0

Templates

Use custom templates by adding this: template = "<name>.html to the page or section frontmatter.

cards

The cards.html section template to display projects with cards.

When using this template pages can have a card image with:

template = "cards.html"
[extra]
card_image = "/absolute/path/to/image.png"

webapps

There is a webapp.html page template for embedding web apps in an iframe.

Specify the path to the webapp in the page frontmatter:

template = "webapp.html"
[extra]
webapp = "/path/to/webapp/index.html

Shortcodes

To be able to write pages in raw HTML, use the raw shortcode:

{% raw() %}
<ul>
    <li>Write</li>
    <li>raw</li>
    <li>HTML</li>
</ul>
{% end %}

There is a gallery shortcode which searches the page directory for images and displays them as a foto gallery:

{{ gallery() }}

To display a right-aligned floating text, use the aside(width="<value>") shortcode. Any valid css width value with its unit can be passed as a parameter. The shortcode has a body, so it has to be terminated with {% end %}. Usage:

{% aside(width="50%") %}
Some related info
{% end %}

It can be useful to then break the flowing text manually. For this there is the clear() shortcode:

{{ clear() }}

To help with alignment, any content can be resized to be a specific width with with_width(width="<value>"):

{% with_width(width="50%") %}
Content is maximum 50 percent!
{% end %}

Write a caption with:

{{ caption(text="This is the caption text") }}

License

^{Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.}

Contribution

_{Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this crate by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.}