Hexo + Netlify CMS Starter

Intro

This is an example site built with Hexo and Netlify CMS, based on Viosey's Hexo material theme.

Deploy to Netlify

Use the following deploy button to get your own copy of the repository up and running:

The Deploy to Netlify button clones a copy of this repository to your own GitHub or GitLab account. You can clone this repository to your computer for local development.

Local Development

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/rhildred/mar5-hobby-site.git
$ cd mar5-hobby-site
$ npm install
$ npm start

Notice that the --recursive flag is important here, as the material theme is introduced as a submodule.

Netlify CMS editor workflow

The Netlify CMS admin panel is already set up in the repo. You can access it via yourwebsite.com/admin, e.g. localhost:4000/admin. To understand more about the configuration, check out Netlify CMS docs.

Internationalization with Language-Based Redirects

Netlify supports a wide range of Redirect & Rewrite Rules. Our example site is featuring the Language-based redirecs, which comes in handy for any sites that support multiple languages.

To enable language based redirects, make sure the following configurations in your root _config.yml file is included:

language: 
  - [language_01]
  - [language_02]
  - [language_03]

i18n_dir: :lang

In the markdown file, make sure you specify the language of the post in the front matter:

lang: [language of preference]

Example code of language based redirect rules:

/           /zh-cn          302  Language=zh
/about      /zh-cn/about    302  Language=zh

/           /es             302  Language=es

Now, if your browser language is set to zh-cn, you'll be taken to https://yourwebsite.com/zh-cn/ automatically. You can apply this technique for any other languages. Make sure that the file path in the redirect rules match your folder structures. E.g., I created a zh-cn folder for all the pages in Chinese and added an about folder containing the about page:

source/
├── _data
│   └── head.json
├── _posts
│   ├── Platero
│   │   └── platero.jpg
│   ├── Platero.md
│   ├── hello-world.md
│   └── 你好.md
├── _redirects
├── admin
│   ├── config.yml
│   └── index.html
├── images
│   └── uploads
│       └── netlify-logo.png
└── zh-cn
    ├── about
    │   └── index.md
    └── index.md

Thus, in my _redirects file, I specified /zh-cn/about as a redirect rule for the about page in Chinese.

Display a single language on the home page

By default, our theme shows posts in all languages on the home page. We only want to show posts written in the default language of the browser. I found a nice plug-in hexo-generator-index-i18n to filter out the unrelated posts. For example, if you go to https://yourwebsite.com/zh-cn/, you'd only see the posts written in Chinese.