Community Plugin

The Gatsby Theme Unicorn

A Gatsby theme for creating a blog with awesome typography.

Installation

Use the blog theme starter

This will generate a new site that pre-configures use of the blog theme.

gatsby new my-blog https://github.com/mohanmonu777/gatsby_starter_unicorn

Manually add to your site

npm install --save gatsby_theme_unicorn

Usage

Theme options

Key	Default value	Description
`basePath`	`/`	Root url for all blog posts
`contentPath`	`content/posts`	Location of blog posts
`assetPath`	`content/assets`	Location of assets
`mdx`	`true`	Configure `gatsby-plugin-mdx` (if your website already is using the plugin pass `false` to turn this off)

Example usage

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby_theme_unicorn`,
      options: {
        // basePath defaults to `/`
        basePath: `/blog`,
      },
    },
  ],
}

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: `Gatsby Theme Unicorn`,
    // Used to provide alt text for your avatar
    author: `@mohan.tech`,
    // Used for SEO
    description: `My site description...`,
    // Used for social links in the root footer
    social: [
      {
        name: `Twitter`,
        url: `https://twitter.com/MrNullPointer`,
      },
      {
        name: `GitHub`,
        url: `https://github.com/mohanmonu777`,
      },
    ],
  },
}