Light Speed

An insanely fast and performance-based Zola theme, ported from Light Speed Jekyll.

Some fun facts about the theme:

• Perfect score on Google's Lighthouse audit
• Only ~434 bytes of CSS
• No media queries
• No JavaScript

Demo: quirky-perlman-34d0da.netlify.com

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Contents

• Installation
• Options
  • Title
  • Sass
  • RSS
  • Footer menu
• Original
• License

Installation

First download this theme to your themes directory:

$ cd themes
$ git clone https://github.com/carpetscheme/lightspeed.git

and then enable it in your config.toml:

theme = "lightspeed"

Posts should be placed in the blog folder.

Options

Title

Set a tile and description for your site to appear in the header:

title = "Different strokes"
description = "for different folks"

Sass

The theme's css is compiled from sass and the output is imported inline to the header ⚡

You can overide the styles by enabling sass compilation in the config:

compile_sass = true

...and placing a replacement style.scss file in the sass folder.

RSS

Enable rss with the standard zola option:

generate_rss = true

...and include your name and email in the feed by setting fields in extra with keys author and email:

[extra]

author = "Grant Green"
email = "grant@green.org"

Footer-menu

Set a field in extra with a key of footer_links:

[extra]

footer_links = [
    {url = "$BASE_URL/about", name = "About"},
    {url = "$BASE_URL/rss.xml", name = "RSS"},
    {url = "https://google.com", name = "Google"},
]

If you put $BASE_URL in a url, it will automatically be replaced by the actual site URL.

Original

This template is based on the Jekyll template Light Speed Jekyll by Bradley Taunt:

• https://github.com/bradleytaunt
• https://twitter.com/bradtaunt

License

Open sourced under the MIT license.

This project is open source except for example articles found in content.