About Blogsmith
Get your blog up and running in hours, not weeks.
Blogsmith is the perfect way to showcase your writing and connect with your audience. It’s built on Astro, a modern static site generator that’s fast, lightweight, and SEO-friendly. And it uses Tailwind CSS, a powerful utility-first CSS framework that makes it easy to style your blog.
This is the free version with limited features. You can purchase the pro version for only $77 $47 as an introductory offer! The pro version includes additional features such as:
- Contact form
- Newsletter signup form
- Multiple Hero sections
- Multiple blog layouts, including a sidebar and table of contents
- Tags pages (in addition to category pages)
- Multiple card components and layouts
- Related Posts
- Share Buttons in blog posts
- JsonLD schema for SEO
- All future updates
- and more!
Features
- Fast and lightweight: This theme is built on Astro, which means it’s blazing fast and uses minimal resources. Your blog will load quickly and smoothly, even on slow connections.
- Markdown Blog Posts: Blogsmith leverages Astro Content Collections, allowing your to write your blog posts in markdown or mdx, with markdown frontmatter validation.
- Categories: Blogsmith supports categories, allowing you to group your blog posts by topic. This makes it easier for readers to find what they’re looking for.
- Multiple Authors: Blogsmith supports multiple authors, allowing you to add multiple authors, or use different authors for blog posts.
- SEO-friendly: Blogsmith is designed to be SEO-friendly, so your blog posts will rank well in search results. It includes OG tags, Twitter cards, and other metadata that will help search engines understand what your blog is about.
- Responsive: This theme is responsive, so it will look great on any device. Your blog will be easy to read and navigate, no matter what screen size it’s viewed on.
- Optimized: This theme is optimized for performance, so your blog will load quickly and smoothly. Images are optimized using Astro’s build in optimization, and files are compressed when building.
- Tailwind CSS: This theme uses Tailwind CSS, which makes it easy to style your blog. Just choose from the pre-defined utility classes and you’re good to go.
- Flexible layout: The theme comes with a flexible layout that you can customize to fit your needs. You can change the colors, fonts, and spacing to create a blog that reflects your unique style.
- Easy to use: This theme is easy to use, with data and config files for you to configure important items on the website. You can get started with just a few clicks.
Benefits
- Get more traffic: A well-designed blog can help you attract more traffic to your website. This theme can help you do that by making your blog look professional and inviting.
- Build an audience: A blog is a great way to build an audience and connect with people who are interested in what you have to say. This theme can help you do that by making it easy to share your content on social media and other platforms.
- Promote your business: If you have a business, a blog can be a great way to promote your products or services. This theme can help you do that by making it easy to add calls to action to your blog posts.
Get started
To get started with this theme, you’ll need to open the folder you download, run npm install, then run npm run dev to see the theme in your browser. Edit details in the site files to update whatever you need, and ship!
I hope this theme helps you create a beautiful and professional blog that you can be proud of.