Blog

Initial setup

To setup your site's blog, start by creating a blog directory.

Then, add a navbar link to your blog within docusaurus.config.js:

links: [
  ...
  {to: 'blog', label: 'Blog', position: 'left'}, // or position: 'right'
  ...
]

Adding posts

To publish in the blog, create a file within the blog directory with a formatted name of YYYY-MM-DD-my-blog-post-title.md. The post date is extracted from the file name.

For example, at my-website/blog/2019-09-05-hello-docusaurus-v2.md:

---
title: Welcome Docusaurus v2
author: Joel Marcey
author_title: Co-creator of Docusaurus 1
author_url: https://github.com/JoelMarcey
author_image_url: https://graph.facebook.com/611217057/picture/?height=200&width=200
authorURL: https://github.com/JoelMarcey
tags: [hello, docusaurus-v2]
---
Welcome to this blog. This blog is created with [**Docusaurus 2 alpha**](https://v2.docusaurus.io/).
<!--truncate-->
This is my first post on Docusaurus 2.
A whole bunch of exploration to follow.

Header options

The only required field is title; however, we provide options to add author information to your blog post as well along with other options.

• author - The author name to be displayed.
• author_url - The URL that the author's name will be linked to. This could be a GitHub, Twitter, Facebook profile URL, etc.
• author_image_url - The URL to the author's thumbnail image.
• author_title - A description of the author.
• title - The blog post title.
• tags - A list of strings to tag to your post.

Summary truncation

Use the <!--truncate--> marker in your blog post to represent what will be shown as the summary when viewing all published blog posts. Anything above <!--truncate--> will be part of the summary. For example:

---
title: Truncation Example
---
All this will be part of the blog post summary.
Even this.
<!--truncate-->
But anything from here on down will not be.
Not this.
Or this.

Feed

You can generate RSS/ Atom feed by passing feedOptions.

feedOptions?: {
  type: 'rss' | 'atom' | 'all';
  title?: string;
  description?: string;
  copyright: string;
  language?: string; // possible values: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#langcodes
};

Example usage:

// docusaurus.config.js
module.exports = {
  // ...
  presets: [
    [
      '@docusaurus/preset-classic',
      {
        blog: {
          feedOptions: {
            type: 'all',
            copyright: `Copyright © ${new Date().getFullYear()} Facebook, Inc.`,
          },
        },
      },
    ],
  ],
};

Accessing the feed:

The feed for RSS can be found at

https://{your-domain}/blog/rss.xml

and for atom

https://{your-domain}/blog/atom.xml

Advanced topics

Blog-only mode

You can run your Docusaurus 2 site without a landing page and instead have your blog's post list page as the index page. Set the routeBasePath to be '/' to indicate it's the root path.

Note: Make sure there's no index.js page in src/pages or else there will be two files mapping to the same route!

// docusaurus.config.js
module.exports = {
  // ...
  presets: [
    [
      '@docusaurus/preset-classic',
      {
        blog: {
          path: './blog',
          routeBasePath: '/', // Set this value to '/'.
        },
      },
    ],
  ],
};