v0.9.0

[lxndrblz]

New Features

• Added Korean and Arabic Translation
• Added RTL Support
• User defined Post section names
• Allow multiline slogans in the sidebar

Fixes

• Improved the overall appearance to closer resemble the original theme by CaiCai
• Resolved an issue where log links would overflow the page width
• Darkened the dark mode
• Changed URLs to relative URLs
• Allow "." and "#" signs in tags and categories

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This discussion was created from the release v0.9.0.

[nicholascarey]

How do you check which version of the theme you are currently on, and how do I apply the update? I ran the command in the README but nothing seemed to happen, and there was nothing to commit.

I'm working in RStudio.

Thanks.

[lxndrblz]

@nicholascarey If you added the theme as a submodule, you should be able to run a git submodule update --remote --merge in the directory where you had initialized to update your theme. If you had added the theme as a submodule you can run a git submodule status to get the current version tag e.g., 0.8.0.

If you cloned/downloaded the theme you will have to clone it once more.

I am not too familiar with using blogdown/R. Based on this blog you should be able to force an update by running blogdown::install_theme() with force = TRUE or by replacing anatole in the theme folder as explained above.

[nicholascarey]

Ok, thanks. Yes, blogdown::install_theme(force = TRUE) worked. The submodule commands did not, even in the correct directory, so i guess i haven't installed it as a submodule....

If you are interested in feedback - i prefer the previous version of the theme, so actually I won't be updating my site to use this particular version. I prefer the previous font, and I don't believe dark modes need to be completely black. I think it works against readability. Maybe have it as an option in the yaml? light/dark/black?

Cheers

[lxndrblz]

@nicholascarey Thanks for your feedback and sharing your concerns. I highly appreciate it and will consider it for future changes and revisions of this theme.

The reason I had updated the font back to a sans-serif font is because I wanted the theme look closer to the original theme and also look more minimalistic. The same goes for the background colour. Personally, I found the greyish to appear blurred out. I'd also looked at various other dark modes (like here on GitHub) and noticed that most sites choose a darker colour than what was configured previously. However, I have to agree that it takes some time to adjust and readability might be impared.

If you want to stay up to date, but use a custom dark theme and font, then I can encourage you to use a custom CSS file, which overrides the variables for the colors. Please let me know if you need support setting one up.