Using HEXO to write blogs

2017-03-28

Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. And we can use Markdown to write it, so it is very efficient. I migrate the old blogs to this theme.

Install Hexo

Using npm to install it.

1	npm install -g hexo-cli

Set up for first using it

Make a directory for blog:

1	mkdir ~/blog

Init for Hexo:

hexo init

Update _config.yml file in work directory for github info:

deploy:
  type: git
  repo: {your github repo url}
  branch: master
  message: "Site updated: {{ now('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss') }}"

Then run the following command to take effect:

1	npm install hexo-deployer-git --save

Install Theme

Ref: https://github.com/litten/hexo-theme-yilia

1	git clone https://github.com/litten/hexo-theme-yilia.git themes/yilia

Modify _config.yml in root dir:

1	theme: yilia

Next, how to write blogs.

Write a blog

Create a blog:

1	hexo new "Post Name"

It will create a .md file in blog/source/_post directory, edit and write it.

Clean Folder:

1	hexo clean

Generate static page to public folder:

1	hexo generate

Deploy to github:

1	hexo deploy

Reference

Links: https://hexo.io/docs/