Kaamos Astro

Overview

Kaamos Astro is a highly search engine optimized starter blog that provides a semantic and lightweight foundation for bloggers. It is designed to be used as a starting point to develop a personal blog and comes with essential features and minimal CSS. Kaamos Astro is licensed under WTFPL, giving users the freedom to customize and modify it as they wish.

Features

• Open Graph Tags (Twitter, Facebook)
• User Declared Canonical URLs
• XML Sitemap
• Robots.txt
• Markdown based blog posts with featured images

Installation

To install Kaamos Astro, follow these steps:

1. Make sure Astro, Node, and npm are installed. Instructions can be found on Astro’s website.
2. Navigate to src/data/site.js and edit it to match your site’s information.
3. Start writing new blog posts in Markdown at src/pages/blog/.

To activate a demo theme, follow these instructions:

1. Open src/components/blog/BaseHead.astro.
2. Find the line <link rel="stylesheet" id='kaamos-demo1-css' href="/style/demo1.css" media='all'/> and change ‘demo1’ to the desired demo theme (e.g., ‘demo2’).
3. Find the line <script src='/script/demo1.js?ver=1.0' id='kaamos-demo1-js'></script> and change ‘demo1’ to the desired demo theme (e.g., ‘demo2’).
4. Start your site locally and the demo theme will be visible in your browser.

Summary

Kaamos Astro is a lightweight and search engine optimized starter blog that provides essential features for bloggers. With its minimalist design and semantic foundation, it allows users to easily develop their own blog. It also offers the option to activate demo themes for further customization. Kaamos Astro is licensed under WTFPL, giving users complete freedom to modify and use the theme as they wish.