Bookworm Blight is a feature-rich, minimal, highly customizable, easy-to-use free Astro 4.x blog theme.

This theme is based on Bookworm Light Astro by Themefisher. A number of improvements and opinionated changes have been made:

• Astro upgraded to v4, following these guides:

  • v2 -> v3
  • v3 -> v4

• Pages as content were removed

  • The Themefisher template allowed pages to be created as content, i.e. you could create a .md file under content/pages/ and it would automatically be made routable and presented like a page through its slug (i.e. /page-slug).

    There was nothing really wrong with this idea, except that it slightly complicated the routing scheme by allowing the possibility of route conflicts. I guess the original intent was to allow draft pages but drafting seems to not be necessary when you have a full version control system available to you as well as built-in support using the underscore (_) prefix convention for pages and content.

• Blog post routes were moved to /posts/

  • The Themefisher template created routes for posts directly under the base path (i.e. /post-slug).

• Images are optimized with the <Image /> Astro component

  • This component was released as a built-in in Astro 3.0.

• View Transitions support added

  • This was also released in Astro 3.0 and improved in Astro 4.0.

• Better use of TypeScript

  • Content types are more transparently handled in this project and typings were added to all component props.

• Reduced usage of TailwindCSS's @apply rule

  • It is considered a code smell to use this too much. TailwindCSS provides a guide on reusability which suggests using framework components for reusable styles rather than CSS classes.

• Significant style changes

  • These were made in anticipation for use on a production site and interspersed with the other changes, so they can't easily be undone. However, you are encouraged to make changes to the theme anyway, and the TailwindCSS improvements should make that easier.

• Opt-In to RSS feed

  • An RSS configuration has been added. To enable, rename src/pages/_rss.xml.ts without the underscore (_) prefix.

Bookworm Blight is a minimal multi-author free Astro blog theme which is perfect for any kind of blog website. Whether you're interested in food, beauty, travel, photography, lifestyle, fitness, health, or other topics, this theme is a great fit. The theme is super fast and SEO friendly which makes it easier for your content to be discovered by search engines.

• 🎨 Highly Customizable (Color, Font, Menu, Social Links, SEO Meta Tags, etc.)
• 👥 Multi-Author Support
• 📚 Authors Page
• 👤 Author Single Page
• 🔍 Search Functionality with FuseJS
• 🏷️ Tags and Categories Support
• 📲 Post Social Share Option
• 🔗 Similar Post Suggestions
• ⚡ Fast by Default (95+ Google PageSpeed Score)
• ⚙️ Netlify Settings Pre-configured
• 📬 Contact Form Support
• 🌅 Support OG Image
• ✍️ Write and Update Content in Markdown / MDX
• 📚 MDX Components Auto Import
• 📝 Includes Draft Posts
• 🚀 Built with Tailwind CSS Framework
• 📱 Fully Responsive on Desktops, Tablets, and Smartphones
• 🔍 SEO Friendly

After downloading the template, you have some prerequisites to install. Then you can run it on your localhost. You can view the package.json file to see which scripts are included.

• Node Installation: Install node js [Recommended LTS version; Minimum 18.1.4]

After successfully installing those dependencies, open this template with any IDE [VS Code recommended], and then open the internal terminal of IDM [vs code shortcut ctrl/cmd+`]

• Install dependencies

npm install

• Run locally

npm run dev

After that, it will open up a preview of the template in your default browser, watch for changes to source files, and live-reload the browser when changes are saved.

After finishing all the customization, you can create a production build by running this command.

npm run build

We use GitHub Issues as the official bug tracker for this Template. Please Search existing issues. It’s possible someone has already reported the same problem. If your problem or idea has not been addressed yet, feel free to open a new issue.

Copyright (c) 2016 - Present, Designed & Developed by Themefisher

Copyright (c) 2023, Mark Ross (Xericode)

Code License: Released under the MIT license.

Image license: Released under the CC0 1.0 license.