Community Plugin

Gatsby Theme Amsterdam

A Gatsby theme for artists, photographers and other creative folks.

Features

Minimal responsive design
Optional page transitions
Multiple grid options to display posts
Customizable theme colors and typography with Theme UI
MDX support
SEO friendly component
Mobile menu
Optional scroll progress indicator
Optional toggle to switch color modes
Emotion using styled-components syntax
Tags
Pagination
Offline support

Installation

Use Gatsby Starter Amsterdam

This will generate a new site pre-configured to use Gatsby Theme Amsterdam.

gatsby new your-themed-site https://github.com/ryanwiemer/gatsby-starter-amsterdam

Manually Add To Your Site

Install the theme

npm install --save gatsby-theme-amsterdam

yarn add gatsby-theme-amsterdam

Add the theme to your gatsby-config.js

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: 'gatsby-theme-amsterdam',
      options: {
        // See theme options section for more information
      },
    },
  ],
}

Usage

Theme Options

Key	Default Value	Description
`basePath`	`/`	Root URL for all posts.
`contentPath`	`content`	Location of markdown files used for the posts.
`transitions`	`true`	Include simple page transitions powered with framer-motion
`postsPerPage`	`6`	Determines the number of posts shown on each page. This effects both the posts and tag template.
`grid`	`basic`	Determines the type of grid used on the posts and tag templates. Two available options: `basic` and `list`.
`progressIndicator`	`true`	Include a progress indicator on the post template.
`colorToggle`	`true`	Include a button in the menu to toggle the color modes.

Example Usage

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: 'gatsby-theme-amsterdam',
      options: {
        // basePath defaults to '/'
        basePath: 'photography',
        // grid defaults to 'basic'
        grid: 'list',
      },
    },
  ],
}

Additional Configuration

In addition to the theme options, there are a handful of items you can customize via the siteMetadata object in your site’s gatsby-config.js.

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    // Used for the site title and SEO
    title: 'My Site Title',
    // Used for SEO
    description: 'My site description...',
    // Used for SEO. Do not include a trailing slash
    url: 'https://www.example.com',
    // Used for SEO. Must be the full URL for the default image
    image: 'https://www.example.com/og-image.jpg',
    // Used for SEO
    author: 'John Doe',
    // Used for an optional intro section at the top of the posts template
    intro: 'John Doe is a photographer....',
    // Used for the links in the menu
    menuLinks: [
      {
        name: 'Home',
        slug: '/',
      },
      {
        name: 'About',
        slug: '/about/',
      },
      {
        name: 'Contact',
        slug: '/contact/',
      },
    ],
    // Used for the links in the footer
    footerLinks: [
      {
        name: 'Dribbble',
        url: 'https://www.dribbble.com/johndoe',
      },
      {
        name: 'Instagram',
        url: 'https://www.instagram.com/johndoe',
      },
    ],
  },
}

Customization

Gatsby Theme Amsterdam utilizes Theme UI. In order to customize the theme styling you must create a theme file and then override the default amsterdamTheme values. If you’re familiar with Styled Components or Emotion it’s the same as adapting the theme you pass to ThemeProvider.

All default values can be viewed here.

// src/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui/index.js

import amsterdamTheme from 'gatsby-theme-amsterdam/src/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui'

export default {
  ...amsterdamTheme,
  colors: {
    ...amsterdamTheme.colors,
    background: '#FCD5C0',
  },
}

Writing Content

Posts are written in markdown / mdx format with either .md or .mdx and placed in the content directory at the root of the site unless a different contentPath is defined in the theme options. There are four front matter variables used in the theme which are shown below.

---
title: Hello World
date: 2019-07-06
cover: cover.jpg
tags: [greeting, blog]
---