This theme was forked from hexo-theme-oranges (English | 简体中文).

Demo blog site

• Original existing functions from hexo-theme-oranges
• Support the publication of articles in multiple languages
• Add switch-language icon in the lower right corner
• Support accessing url with context path suffix

1. Enter hexo root directory and download theme via git submodule.

git submodule add -b multilang https://github.com/sissilab/hexo-theme-arch.git themes/arch

To update the theme in the future, just execute the git pull command in the theme root directory.

2. Remove hexo-generator-* and add hexo-pagination from package.json.

npm uninstall hexo-generator-archive
npm uninstall hexo-generator-category
npm uninstall hexo-generator-index
npm uninstall hexo-generator-tag

npm install hexo-pagination --save

3. Activate theme.

_config.yml can refer to hexo-theme-arch-sample.

# Set theme to arch in _config.yml
theme: arch

4. Configure theme.

Copy the _config.yml file in the theme folder to the blog root directory and rename it to _config.arch.yml.

_config.arch.yml can refer to hexo-theme-arch-sample.

If you want to support the publication of articles in both English (en) and Simplified Chinese (zh-CN), you can consider the following steps:

• Please find complete sample configuration in hexo-theme-arch-sample.
• Accessing http://localhost:4000/hexo-theme-arch-sample/ will redirect to http://localhost:4000/hexo-theme-arch-sample/en/ (as en is located in the 1st position of language: [en, zh-CN])
• English site: http://localhost:4000/hexo-theme-arch-sample/en/
• Simplified Chinese site: http://localhost:4000/hexo-theme-arch-sample/zh-CN/

1. Firstly follow the above Usage to complete download and configuration of the theme.
2. Set language: [en, zh-CN] in _config.yml.
3. Enable navigation bar in _config.arch.yml. If you enable Categories, Tags, About or Friends, you need create the corresponding files: a. Enable Categories: Create source/en/categories/index.md with the following content:

   ---
   title: categories
   type: "categories"
   lang: en
   ---

   Create source/zh-CN/categories/index.md with the following content:

   ---
   title: categories
   type: "categories"
   lang: zh-CN
   ---

   b. Enable Tags: Create source/en/tags/index.md with the following content:

   ---
   title: tags
   type: "tags"
   lang: en
   ---

   Create source/zh-CN/tags/index.md with the following content:

   ---
   title: tags
   type: "tags"
   lang: zh-CN
   ---

   c. Enable About: Create source/en/about/index.md with the following content:

   ---
   title: about
   type: "about"
   lang: en
   ---
   
   Introduce yourself here!

   Create source/zh-CN/about/index.md with the following content:

   ---
   title: about
   type: "about"
   lang: zh-CN
   ---
   
   在这里介绍你自己吧！

   d. Enable Friends: Create source/en/friends/index.md with the following content:

   ---
   title: friends
   type: "friends"
   lang: en
   ---

   Create source/zh-CN/friends/index.md with the following content:

   ---
   title: friends
   type: "friends"
   lang: zh-CN
   ---

4. Add post-en.md and post-zh-CN.md under scaffolds folder.
   • post-en.md content:

   ---
   title: {{ title }}
   lang: en
   date: {{ date }}
   tags: []
   categories: 
   ---
   

   • post-zh-CN.md content:

   ---
   title: {{ title }}
   lang: zh-CN
   date: {{ date }}
   tags: []
   categories: 
   ---
   

5. Now you can create your posts based on the templates defined under scaffolds folder. If you want to create a post in both English version and Simplified Chinese version, you need run commands as follows:
   • Create a new post in English version: hexo new post-en --path en/hello "Hello"
   • Create a new post in Simplified Chinese version: hexo new post-zh --path zh-CN/hello "Hello"
6. Finally start your hexo service: hexo s --debug.

English (en) Home page:

Chinese (zh-CN) Home page: