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The default configuration is sufficient to get Zola running locally but not more than that. It follows the philosophy of paying for only what you need; almost everything is turned off by default.
To change the configuration, edit the config.toml file.
If you are not familiar with TOML, have a look at the TOML spec.
Only the base_url variable is mandatory; everything else is optional. All configuration variables
used by Zola as well as their default values are listed below:
# The base URL of the site; the only required configuration variable.
base_url = "mywebsite.com"
# The site title and description; used in RSS by default.
title = ""
description = ""
# The default language; used in RSS.
default_language = "en"
# The site theme to use.
theme = ""
# When set to "true", all code blocks are highlighted.
highlight_code = false
# The theme to use for code highlighting.
# See below for list of allowed values.
highlight_theme = "base16-ocean-dark"
# When set to "true", an RSS feed is automatically generated.
generate_rss = false
# The number of articles to include in the RSS feed. All items are included if
# this limit is not set (the default).
# rss_limit = 20
# When set to "true", files in the `static` directory are hard-linked. Useful for large
# static files. Note that for this to work, both `static` and the
# output directory need to be on the same filesystem. Note that the theme's `static`
# files are always copied, regardles of this setting.
# hard_link_static = false
# The taxonomies to be rendered for the site and their configuration.
# Example:
# taxonomies = [
# {name = "tags", rss = true}, # each tag will have its own RSS feed
# {name = "tags", lang = "fr"}, # you can have taxonomies with the same name in multiple languages
# {name = "categories", paginate_by = 5}, # 5 items per page for a term
# {name = "authors"}, # Basic definition: no RSS or pagination
# ]
#
taxonomies = []
# The additional languages for the site.
# Example:
# languages = [
# {code = "fr", rss = true}, # there will be a RSS feed for French content
# {code = "fr", search = true}, # there will be a Search Index for French content
# {code = "it"}, # there won't be a RSS feed for Italian content
# ]
#
languages = []
# When set to "true", the Sass files in the `sass` directory are compiled.
compile_sass = false
# When set to "true", a search index is built from the pages and section
# content for `default_language`.
build_search_index = false
# A list of glob patterns specifying asset files to ignore when the content
# directory is processed. Defaults to none, which means that all asset files are
# copied over to the `public` directory.
# Example:
# ignored_content = ["*.{graphml,xlsx}", "temp.*"]
ignored_content = []
# A list of directories used to search for additional `.sublime-syntax` files.
extra_syntaxes = []
# Optional translation object. The key if present should be a language code.
# Example:
# default_language = "fr"
#
# [translations]
# [translations.fr]
# title = "Un titre"
#
# [translations.en]
# title = "A title"
# Configuration of the link checker.
[link_checker]
# Skip link checking for external URLs that start with these prefixes
skip_prefixes = [
"http://[2001:db8::]/",
]
# Skip anchor checking for external URLs that start with these prefixes
skip_anchor_prefixes = [
"https://caniuse.com/",
]
# Various slugification strategies, see below for details
# Defauls to everything being a slug
[slugify]
paths = "on"
taxonomies = "on"
anchors = "on"
# Optional translation object. Keys should be language codes.
[translations]
# You can put any kind of data here. The data
# will be accessible in all templates.
[extra]
Zola currently has the following highlight themes available:
Zola uses the Sublime Text themes, making it very easy to add more. If you want a theme not listed above, please open an issue or a pull request on the Zola repo.
By default, Zola will turn every path, taxonomies and anchors to a slug, an ASCII representation with no special characters. You can however change that strategy for each kind of item, if you want UTF-8 characters in your URLs for example. There are 3 strategies:
on: the default one, everything is turned into a slugsafe: characters that cannot exist in files on Windows (<>:"/\|?*) or Unix (/) are removed, everything else staysoff: nothing is changed, your site might not build on some OS and/or break various URL parsersSince there are no filename issues with anchors, the safe and off strategies are identical in their case: the only change
is space being replaced by _ since a space is not valid in an anchor.
Note that if you are using a strategy other than the default, you will have to manually escape whitespace and Markdown
tokens to be able to link to your pages. For example an internal link to a file named some space.md will need to be
written like some%20space.md in your Markdown files.