Tutorial for Hexo+Github=Blog

1. Create repository

   Follow instructions in github to create a new repository

2. Install npm

Follow instructions in npmjs

3. Install Hexo

$ npm install hexo-cli -g

4. Create a new directory and initialize

$ hexo init blog

$ cd blog

$ npm install

5. Copy blog in blog\source\_posts

6. Generate static website

$ hexo generate

7. Configure deployed repository in __config.yml

$ vim __config.yml

# Deployment
## Docs: https://hexo.io/docs/deployment.html
deploy: 
  type: git
  repo: git@github.com:USERNAME/USERNAME.github.io.git

8. Install hexo-deployer-git

$ npm install hexo-deployer-git -save

9. Deploy

$ hexo deploy

Now, you can access your blog through USERNAME.github.io.

Hexo is used to generate static website. Github is used as web server.

• Generate Atom for RSS

$ npm install hexo-generator-feed –save

$ vim __config.yml

feed:
    type: atom
    path: atom.xml
    limit: 20
    hub:
    content:
    content_limit: 140
    content_limit_delim: ' '
    order_by: -date

• Change Theme

$ git clone THEME_URL themes/THEME_NAME

$ vim __config.yml

...
    theme: THEME_NAME
...