The Blog starter is the most advanced default starter in the Kit. It’s the Website starter + blog functionality based on markdown files.

Live demo

Features

• A bunch of ready to use themeable React components.
• Default theme applied to all components.
• Posts pages automatically created from markdown posts files.
• Automaticaly created Category pages for blog posts.
• Web pages automatically created from markdown pages files.
• Categories for markdown posts and pages.
• Markdown parts files let you edit content inside React components without touching the code.
• Author block below every post content.
• Next / Prev block below every post content.
• Comments by Facebook widget.
• Social share buttons block.
• Central config object.
• Easy editable menu.
• Feather icons.
• Seo component for managing meta tags.
• Google Analytics support.
• Auto generated sitemap.

Gatsby plugins

• gatsby-plugin-catch-links
• gatsby-plugin-emotion
• gatsby-plugin-google-analytics
• gatsby-plugin-sharp
• gatsby-plugin-sitemap
• gatsby-plugin-react-helmet
• gatsby-plugin-resolve-src
• gatsby-remark-copy-linked-file
• gatsby-remark-emojis
• gatsby-remark-images
• gatsby-remark-prismjs
• gatsby-remark-responsive-iframe
• gatsby-remark-smartypants
• gatsby-transformer-remark
• gatsby-source-filesystem

Add-ons

• @react-website-themes/default
• emotion
• emotion-server
• facepaint
• react-custom-share
• react-emotion
• react-facebook
• react-feather
• react-helmet

Folder structure

root
  └── src
      ├── content
      │   ├── meta
      │   │   ├── config.js
      │   │   └── menu.js
      │   ├── pages
      │   │   ├── catalog
      │   │   │   └── index.md
      │   │   └── about
      │   │       └── index.md
      │   ├── posts
      │   │   ├── 2017-10-01___two-things-are
      │   │   |   ├── photo.png
      │   │   │   └── index.md
      |   |
      |   |   ...
      |   |
      │   │   └── 2017-10-21___like-nonsense
      │   │       ├── photo.png
      │   │       └── index.md
      │   └── parts
      │       ├── author.md
      │       ├── copyright.md
      │       ├── footerLinks.md
      │       ├── hero.md
      │       ├── notFound.md
      │       └── welcome.md
      ├── pages
      │   ├── 404.js
      │   ├── blog.js
      │   └── index.js
      └── templates
          ├── CategoryTemplate.js
          ├── PageTemplate.js
          └── PostTemplate.js

Installation

Default usage

gatsby new [NEW_DIRECTORY_FOR_YOUR_SITE] https://github.com/greglobinski/gatsby-starter-kit.git#blog-with-content
...
cd [NEW_DIRECTORY_FOR_YOUR_SITE]
...
gatsby develop

Advanced usage

Fork the repository.

git clone https://github.com/[your-github-name]/gatsby-starter-kit.git [NEW_DIRECTORY_FOR_YOUR_SITE]
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cd [NEW_DIRECTORY_FOR_YOUR_SITE]
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git checkout --track origin/blog-with-content
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git checkout -b my-blog
...
yarn install
...
gatsby develop