anemone

Introducing "anemone," a minimalist Zola theme that prioritizes clean CSS and avoids heavy JavaScript. Enjoy a seamless user experience with lightning-fast load times. Let your content take center stage in a clutter-free, elegant design that enhances readability. Responsive and efficient, anemone brings focus to your ideas.

You can browse the demo website here I also use it on my own website.

Anemone is a versatile Zola theme that comes with both light and dark variants. You can easily switch between the light and dark themes to suit your preferences.

Anemone Light and Dark Theme

Installation

To get started with Anemone, follow these simple steps:

  1. Download the theme to your themes directory:
cd themes
git clone https://github.com/Speyll/anemone
  1. Enable Anemone in your config.toml:
theme = "anemone"

Release Notes

2025-04-09

This release introduces a complete rewrite of the project: simplified, improved, and optimized across the board.

If you are updating from an older release:

  1. Open your config.toml file and update it as needed (compare with the latest release for reference).
  2. Remove the following line from content/blog/_index.md:
    page_template = "blog-page.html"
    

2024-03-02

This release brings several improvements and enhancements, focusing mainly on optimizing performance and user experience. Here's a summary of the key changes:

Options

Anemone provides various options to customize your website:

Default Taxonomies

To use tags, add the following code to a page's metadata:

[taxonomies]
tags = ["tag1", "tag2"]

Pages List in Homepage

Enable listing of pages in the homepage by adding the following code to config.toml:

[extra]
list_pages = true

Multilanguage

The theme has a built-in feature that allows you to use multiple languages. For detailed instructions on how to use this feature, you can refer to the Zola Multilingual documentation. This documentation provides additional information on how to make the most out of this multilingual capability.

[languages.fr]
weight = 2
title = "anemone"
languageName = "Français"
languageCode = "fr"

Multilanguage-Ready Navigation Bar

Customize the header navigation links with the following code in the extra section of config.toml:

[extra]

header_nav = [
  { url = "/", name_en = "/home/", name_fr = "/accueil/" },
  { url = "/about", name_en = "/about/", name_fr = "/concernant/" },
  { url = "/journal", name_en = "/journal/", name_fr = "/journal/" },
  { url = "/blog", name_en = "/blog/", name_fr = "/blog/" }
]

Add Table of Contents (TOC) to Pages

In a page's frontmatter, set extra.toc to true:

[extra]
toc = true

Display Author Name in Blog Posts

Customize the display of the author's name in your blog posts by toggling the display_author variable to either true or false:

[extra]
display_author = true

Webrings

Add a webring with a shortcode:

{{ webring(prev="#", webring="#", webringName="Random Webring", next="#") }}

Extra Data

License

The Anemone theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.