hexo-theme-yilia

Hexo-theme-yilia is a visual theme for Hexo, a static blog generator. If you run a personal blog built with Hexo, you can swap in this theme to change how your site looks and behaves. The theme aims for a clean, minimal appearance that keeps the reader's attention on the writing rather than on decorative elements.

The design priorities, as stated in the README, are simplicity, good mobile browsing, fast page loads, and content-first layout. The theme does not support older Internet Explorer versions (IE 6, 7, or 8), which is a deliberate trade-off in favor of a cleaner codebase and modern browser features.

Features added over time include a table-of-contents sidebar, a tips/reward button (common on Chinese blogs for readers to send a small payment), search functionality, a tag cloud panel, and social sharing links. The theme supports several comment systems including Disqus and Gitment, as well as Chinese-specific platforms. You can also wire up Google Analytics or Baidu Analytics for traffic tracking.

Installing it involves cloning the repository into your Hexo themes folder and setting the theme name in your Hexo configuration file. Customization is done through a YAML configuration file that controls the navigation menu, social links, color scheme for the header and sidebar, comment system choice, and which optional panels to show. Developers who want to make deeper changes to the theme's code need to build it using webpack, since the source files are not the final output files.

The README is written primarily in Chinese, so most of the detail above comes from the configuration examples and code structure rather than translated prose.