Bliss - Blog Theme For Eleventy

Bliss is a single-column blog template for Eleventy static site generator with strong focus on simplicity without sacrificing functionality.

It is a modified and improved version of the theme running Offbeat Bits - my personal blog.

Features

• light / dark mode switcher + honoring browser color scheme preference
• sharing buttons for popular social media (including Mastodon!) + copying post URL to clipboard
• Mastodon integration: generating .well-known/webfinger file + automatic generation of <link rel="me"> tags for site ownership verification
• translation ready (support for custom language tags + separate file with static phrases)
• automatic favicon generation
• manifest file for PWA
• automatic OpenGraph image generation
• code syntax highlighting with PrismJS using Eleventy syntax highlighting plugin
• HTML, JS, JSON, CSS optimizations
• RSS, JSON, Twtxt.txt feeds + JSON-LD data
• accessibility features
• HSL color palette and CSS variables for straightforward personalization
• modular CSS augmented with SASS
• custom disclaimers alongside post content
• and more

Live demo

https://eleventy-bliss.lkmt.us/

Instant deploy

Netlify:

Vercel:

Render:

Configuration

See siteConfig.js. Inline documentation is available in the file.

Translation file

See phrases.js for the list of translatable static phrases.

Personalization checklist

Non-exhaustive list of steps to make the template your own. Some of them are optional, others are highly recommended:

• Fill in all relevant information in siteConfig.js - site title, description, custom logo, author information, etc.
• Modify production URL - either by hardcoding it in siteConfig.js or via process.env.URL environment variable
• Replace site logo or remove the existing one to use site title as text in your header
• Modify color palette to your liking - edit relevant variables in _variables.scss
• If you changed the color palette - modify theme color and background color for PWA manifest - see siteConfig.js
• If you changed the color palette - modify base color for RSS XSL stylesheet - see siteConfig.js
• Enable automatic OpenGraph image generation - note that they only work for pages and posts
• Add your own posts - use the existing placeholder posts as a reference
• If you use post disclaimers at the beginning of your posts - consider using the built-in disclaimer feature - see 06-10-sample-post-33-disclaimer.md or 05-31-sample-post-32-linked-disclaimer.md for reference
• Add your own pages - use one of the existing placeholder pages as a reference
• Add / remove meta pages in the footer - see siteConfig.js
• Replace a favicon file (favicon.svg) with your own - only one file is needed, the remaining ones will be generated on build
• Replace OpenGraph images with ones relevant to your site
• Decide if you want to use automated OpenGragh image generation + consider modifying their appearance to suit your taste (see siteConfig.js for more info)
• Copy your existing static assets to assets folder. Note that the top of assets folder corresponds to the root directory of your site (_site)
• Modify anything else you don't like about the theme to match your preferences
• Enjoy! 😊

Optional customizations

Make titles optional + use file slugs for permalinks

By default, the template assumes each post and each page to have a title and generates a permalink out using a slugify function. In other words, it converts A title like this! into a-title-like-this.

If you want your posts to have no title, open content/posts/posts.json file and modify the following line:

  "permalink": "{% if customPermalink %}{{ customPermalink }}{% else %}/{{ title | slugify }}/{% endif %}",

into the following:

  "permalink": "{% if customPermalink %}{{ customPermalink }}{% else %}/{{ page.fileSlug }}/{% endif %}",

You can do the same for pages by modifying content/pages/pages.json file.

Contributions

Contributions of the following kind are welcome:

• bug reports / fixes
• documentation improvements
• improvements of existing features

I consider the project complete and apart from specific exceptions, no new features are planned.

Before contributing be sure to read Code of Conduct.

License

Licensed under the MIT license.