Set up your personal blog with hexo and github

Contents

1. 1. Install
2. 2. Hexo
3. 3. Set deploy destination to GitHub

Install

Install git
Install nodes
Install Hexo
$ npm install -g hexo-cli

Hexo

Create blog
Mkdir blog
cd blog
Run init: hexo init
 
Generate static blog files: hexo generate
Test and Debug local: hexo server
And then browse: http://localhost:4000

Add a new blog post: hexo new "Hello Hexo”

Or generate through github repository

cd .. && git clone https://github.com/taylortao/MyBlogRawMarkDownFile.git

cd blog/source
ln -sf ../../MyBlogRawMarkDownFile/about about
rm -rf _posts && ln -sf ../../MyBlogRawMarkDownFile/_posts _posts
ln -sf ../MyBlogRawMarkDownFile/hexoConfig/_config.yml _config.yml

// install jacman theme
git clone https://github.com/wuchong/jacman.git themes/jacman
cd themes/jacman && ln -sf ../../../MyBlogRawMarkDownFile/jacmanConfig/_config.yml _config.yml

 
Support feed and sitemap
$ npm install hexo-generator-feed --save
$ npm install hexo-generator-sitemap --save

Set deploy destination to GitHub

 
Add a new repository，and its name must be your_user_name.github.io
 
And then modify _config.yml:
 
vim _config.yml

In deploy section

deploy:
     type: git
     repo:https://github.com/taylortao/taylortao.github.io.git
     branch:master

And then run
 
$ npm install hexo-deployer-git --save
 
hexo deploy
 
Browse: http://taylortao.github.io/
 
Regenerate:
hexo clean
hexo generate
hexo deploy