The technical blog for the Ritter Insurance Marketing development department.
Overview
The article provides a guide on how to set up and use a photography theme for a website. It includes instructions on installation, creating posts, adding images, and managing author and pet pages.
Features
- Easy installation: The theme requires the latest version of Node.js to be installed and can be easily cloned from a repository.
- Post creation: Users can create new posts in Markdown format, with the option to add various frontmatter details such as title, slug, date, authors, tags, and categories.
- Image management: The theme allows users to add images to the public/images/ directory and easily include them in posts by linking to them.
- Creative Commons image support: Users can use Creative Commons images that require attribution and include the necessary image credit information.
- Author pages: The theme provides a feature to create author pages, which are located in the src/content/authors directory.
- Pet pages: Users can add pet pages by adding a 500x500px photo to the public/images/pets/ directory and adding information to the src/data/pets.json file.
Installation
- Install the latest version of Node.js, if it is not already installed.
- Clone the repository.
- Change directory to the repository.
- Run
npm install to install the required dependencies. - To start the theme, run
npm run start.
Summary
The photography theme provides easy installation and a range of features for managing a photography website. Users can create new posts, add images, manage author and pet pages, and use Creative Commons images requiring attribution. The theme is flexible and can be customized to suit different photography websites.