Community Plugin

Gatsby blog theme for Fireblog CMS with PWA support

Combine Gatbsy (a modern static site generator ideal for JAMstack architectures) and Fireblog CMS to create a new blog experience: a super fast and simple back-office with a super fast and modern front-end!

Fireblog (https://fireblogcms.com) is a new headless CMS dedicated to blogging, with a very simple but powerful writing interface. Try it for free (one month trial): https://app.fireblogcms.com.

Features

Fast and SEO friendly
Offline mode
Images optimization with Fireblog API
Responsive
Pagination
Easy to customize with Sass & Bulma (https://bulma.io). See section “Customize theme for your brand”
Google Analytics

Installation

Requirements

node.js >= 12.00 is required. Make sure you have a compatible version running node -v command in your terminal.

If you have to install node, you might be interested in using nvm to install and switch easily between any node version.

For a new site

If you’re creating a new site and want to use the blog theme, you can use the blog theme starter. This will generate a new site that pre-configures use of the blog theme.

gatsby new my-themed-fireblog https://github.com/fireblogcms/gatsby-starter-fireblog-basic
cd my-themed-fireblog

Create a .env file copied from the .env.template file and set your environment variables

cp .env.template .env

For an existing site

If you already have a site you’d like to add the blog theme to, you can manually configure it.

Install the blog theme

npm install gatsby-theme-fireblog-basic

Add the configuration to your gatsby-config.js file

// gatsby-config.js
require('dotenv').config();

module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    siteUrl: process.env.GATSBY_SITE_URL,
  },
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-theme-fireblog-basic`,
      options: {
        graphqlEndpoint: process.env.GATSBY_FIREBLOG_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT, // required
        blogId: process.env.GATSBY_BLOG_ID, // required
        analyticsTrackingId: process.env.GATSBY_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID, // optinonal
      },
    },
  ],
};

Run your site using gatsby develop and navigate to your blog posts. If you used the above configuration, your URL will be http://localhost:8000/

Usage

Theme options

Key	Default value	Description
`graphqlEndpoint`	`''`	Endpoint to your graphql account (see https://fireblogcms) => required
`blogId`	`''`	Blog id to publich => required
`analyticsTrackingId`	`''`	Google Analytics Tracking ID (UA-xxxx) => optional
`blogPath`	`'/'`	Blog index path => optional
`manifestOptions`	`{}`	PWA manifest customization from “gatsby-plugin-manifest” (example bellow) => optionnal

Example configuration

// gatsby-config.js
require('dotenv').config();

module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    siteUrl: process.env.GATSBY_SITE_URL,
  },
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-theme-fireblog-basic`,
      options: {
        graphqlEndpoint: process.env.GATSBY_FIREBLOG_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT, // required
        blogId: process.env.GATSBY_BLOG_ID, // required
        analyticsTrackingId: process.env.GATSBY_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID, // optinonal
      },
    },
  ],
};

Customize theme for your brand

Brand

Put your own logo to static/images/logo.png
Configure top menu links, Progressive Web App name, and more by editing ./gatsby-config.js file

// gatsby-config.js
require('dotenv').config();

module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    // absolute url of your site, e.g https://example.com. Required
    // to build some absolute links.
    siteUrl: process.env.GATSBY_SITE_URL,
    // default language of your site, also used as a html attribute
    lang: 'en',
    // how many posts are display per page on post list page
    postsPerPage: 20,
    // links for the top menu
    menuLinks: [
      {
        title: 'Home',
        props: {
          to: '/',
        },
      },
      {
        title: 'Back to site',
        props: {
          to: 'https://fireblogcms.com',
          target: '_blank',
          id: 'back-to-site',
        },
      },
    ],
    readMoreText: 'Read more',
    followUsText: 'Follow us',
    recentPostsText: 'Latest posts',

    // links to your social accounts.
    // @see components/socials.js
    // Use an empty string as value to disable a specific social network
    socials: {
      linkedin: 'https://www.linkedin.com/',
      instagram: 'https://www.instagram.com/',
      twitter: 'https://twitter.com/',
      facebook: 'https://www.facebook.com/',
      youtube: 'https://www.youtube.com/',
    },
  },
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-theme-fireblog-basic`,
      options: {
        graphqlEndpoint: process.env.GATSBY_FIREBLOG_GRAPHQL_ENDPOINT, // required
        blogId: process.env.GATSBY_BLOG_ID, // required
        analyticsTrackingId: process.env.GATSBY_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID, // optinonal
        blogPath: '/',
        manifestOptions: {
          icon: `static/images/logo.png`,
          // name of the application when site
          // is installed as an application (PWA)
          name: 'Coolest Fireblog',
          short_name: 'Fireblog',
          start_url: `/`,
          background_color: `#ffffff`,
          theme_color: `#663399`,
          display: `minimal-ui`,
        },
      },
    },
  ],
};

CSS

To customize scss you have to override gatsby-browser.js and make sure you import your own files (an example is given in starter https://github.com/fireblogcms/gatsby-starter-fireblog-basic)

Override style variables from src/scss/_variables.scss file
Override css theme by editing src/scss/_theme.scss