Blowdit

A clean, minimal theme for Bludit inspired by the Blowfish Hugo theme.

Features

• 🎨 Four color themes — the navbar button cycles Light → Dark → Nord → Dracula, remembering the visitor's choice (falls back to the OS preference).
• 🧱 Monochrome base design — restrained grayscale palette with crisp typography (Inter).
• 👤 Profile hero — circular avatar, site title, slogan and social links on the homepage.
• 📚 Right sidebar — drop any Bludit sidebar plugin into it (categories, tags, search…).
• 🔀 Randomized navigation — the Navigation/Pages plugin list is shuffled on each load.
• ⏱️ Reading time & dates shown on the post list and single posts.
• 🔗 Social icons in the navbar and hero, using SVG files in img/ (GitHub, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and more).
• 🏷️ Tags & categories rendered as pill badges.
• 📱 Fully responsive, no flash of the wrong theme on load.

Installation

1. Download or clone this repository into your Bludit bl-themes directory:

   /usr/share/nginx/html/bl-themes/
   

2. In the Bludit admin panel go to Settings → Themes and activate Blowdit.

3. Add your assets to blowdit/img/:

   • The social-network SVG icons (github.svg, mastodon.svg, …) named after each Bludit social-network key.
   • Your avatar as spleenftw.jpeg — used for the homepage profile hero and the favicon. To use a different filename, change it in php/head.php (favicon) and php/home.php ($profileImage).

Layout

blowdit/
├── index.php          Main template
├── metadata.json      Theme metadata
├── css/
│   └── style.css      Light & dark styles (CSS custom properties)
├── php/
│   ├── head.php       <head>, fonts, favicon, anti-FOUC theme script
│   ├── navbar.php     Navbar, social SVG icons, theme toggle
│   ├── home.php       Profile hero + post listing
│   ├── page.php       Single page / post
│   ├── sidebar.php    Sidebar plugin container
│   └── footer.php     Footer
├── img/               Social SVG icons + avatar (spleenftw.jpeg)
└── languages/         Translations

Themes

Each theme is just a set of CSS custom properties. Light lives in :root; the others override it under [data-theme="dark"], [data-theme="nord"] and [data-theme="dracula"]. The attribute is set on <html> before paint (in php/head.php) to avoid a flash, and the navbar button cycles through them, persisting the choice to localStorage.

To tweak a palette or add your own theme, edit/duplicate the variable blocks at the top of css/style.css and add the theme name to the THEMES array in the toggle script in index.php.

Randomized navigation

If the Navigation (or Pages) plugin is in the sidebar, its list is shuffled on every page load by a small script in index.php. The plugin's output is wrapped in .js-random-nav; if your plugin uses a different CSS class, adjust the detection in index.php accordingly.

License

MIT