halve-z

Retro two-column theme

Author: -k

This theme requires Zola version 0.19.2 and above

License: MIT

Homepage: https://github.com/charlesrocket/halvez

Live Demo: https://halve-z.netlify.app/

Last updated: 2025-09-02T02:54:10Z

halve-z

A two-column theme for Zola.

Features

This is a retro port of Halve (Jekyll). It features:

• search
• taxonomies
• PWA (dynamic cache/offline mode)
• notifications
• auto color schemes
• ToC
• pagination
• media shortcodes
• SEO
• CSP
• project cards
• comments (Cactus/Giscus)
• read time

Installation

Add theme submodule using git:

git submodule add https://github.com/charlesrocket/halve-z themes/halve-z

Updates

Use the following command to update theme to the latest version:

git submodule update --recursive --remote

Configuration

1. Copy theme's config.toml into your project's root directory. Set variables as required and add theme = "halve-z" at the top of the config file.
2. Copy the content to get started:

cp -R -f themes/halve-z/content/ content/

Usage

See demo posts.