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Gatsby Starter Glass

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Updated: 7 Oct 2022
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A Minimal & Beautiful Gatsby Personal Blog Starter With Nice Glassmorphism UI

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Overview:

Gatsby Starter Glass is a minimal and beautiful Gatsby personal blog starter with a nice Glassmorphism UI. It offers a fully responsive design and includes essential features such as SEO metadata, open graph tags, a contact form with Netlify Form integration, and easy content editing with Netlify CMS. The theme also provides syntax highlighting via PrismJS and supports local installation.

Features:

  • Fully responsive: The theme is designed to work seamlessly across various devices and screen sizes.
  • SEO metadata and Open Graph tags: It includes built-in features to generate proper meta tags for search engine optimization and social media sharing.
  • Maximized lighthouse score: The theme is optimized for performance, ensuring a high score on lighthouse audits.
  • Contact form with Netlify Form: It integrates with Netlify Form to provide a contact form for users to message the site owner.
  • Edit content with Netlify CMS: Users can easily update and manage their blog posts and page content using the Netlify CMS interface.
  • Easy to deploy: The theme can be easily deployed using Netlify, a popular hosting platform for static sites.
  • Syntax highlighting via PrismJS: Code snippets in blog posts can be highlighted using the PrismJS library.
  • Local Install: The theme supports local installation for development and testing purposes.

Installation:

To install the Gatsby Starter Glass theme, follow these steps:

  1. Generate a new repo from the theme’s repository, which will copy all the necessary files.
  2. Go to Netlify and log in to your account.
  3. On your dashboard, click the “New site from Git” button and choose your newly created repo.
  4. Follow the prompts and wait for the build process to complete.
  5. Once the build is complete, you will be redirected to the site dashboard.

To manually edit the contents of the theme:

  1. Blog posts can be updated in Markdown format at content/blog. Delete placeholder posts and start creating your own.
  2. Update the homepage intro, contact, and about page content in Markdown format at content/pages.

To edit contents using Netlify CMS:

  1. Set up Netlify’s Identity service to authorize users to log in to the CMS.
  2. Go to Netlify and select your website from the list.
  3. Go to Identity and enable Identity.
  4. Click on “Invite Users” and invite yourself, then accept the invitation to set the password.
  5. Go to Settings > Identity > Services and enable Git Gateway.
  6. Manage who can register and log in to your CMS by going to Settings > Identity > Registration Preferences.
  7. Access the CMS by visiting site-name.netlify.app/admin/ and login with your credentials.
  8. In the CMS, you can navigate to Posts and Pages to manage and edit existing content.

Summary:

Gatsby Starter Glass is a visually appealing and functional Gatsby personal blog starter theme. It offers a range of features including responsiveness, SEO optimization, contact forms, easy content editing with Netlify CMS, and more. With a simple installation process and the flexibility to customize content, this theme is a great choice for bloggers looking to create a stylish and user-friendly blog.