Astro Blog

Astro Blog is a starter template written in Typescript, UnoCSS (using TailwindCSS directives), AlpineJS and Astro. It supports Markdown blog posts (including photo galleries), plus full text search.

It has full SEO support for Facebook (Open Graph) tags, Twitter Cards and Schema/JSON-LD metadata. It also features fully auto generated RSS feed and sitemap for search engine indexing.

a beautiful field of flowers next to a lake surrounded by mountains and trees at sunset

Features

Astro Blog Starter

This is a good starting point for a blog, including support for photo galleries.

Easy to Create Content

Create pages and blog posts using Markdown. Includes support for photo galleries.

Customisable Design

Built using the TailwindCSS ecosystem (including HeroIcons and Hero Patterns) but using UnoCSS. Very easy to customise and change design.

SEO Ready

Full support for Facebook (Open Graph), Twitter Cards, Schema/JSON-LD metadata. Automatically generated robots.txt, RSS feed and sitemap.

Blazing Performance

Achieve great web vitals scores. Static site using Jamstack architecture. Built using Astro and Typescript for ultimate performance and type safety.

Find Out More

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Astro

Build faster websites with less client-side Javascript

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TailwindCSS/UnoCSS

A utility-first CSS framework that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup, realised via the UnoCSS engine

Core Web

HTML/CSS/Javascript

The core building blocks of the web

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How to Use

Sun Jun 11 2023

Some suggestions for how to use this starter.

Read more How to Use
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Sample Gallery post

Mon Aug 22 2022

Test post with a photo gallery and lightbox (using PhotoSwipe)

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Sample Images post

Mon Aug 22 2022

Test post with lightbox (using PhotoSwipe) on a set of images

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Markdown Cheat Sheet

Wed Aug 10 2022

A quick reference to the Markdown syntax.

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MIT Licence

Tue Aug 09 2022

The MIT License, explained.

Ready to give it a try? Use the starter on Github today.