tabi

A fast, lightweight, and modern Zola theme with multi-language support. It aims to be a personal page and home to blog posts.

See a live preview (and the theme's documentation) here.

Explore the Sites Using tabi section to see real-world applications.

tabi (旅, /tɐˈbi/): Journey.

tabi has a perfect score on Google's Lighthouse audit:

Features

• Set any language as default. Set your base site to Chinese, Spanish, French, Hindi… or any other supported language. The theme's interface will be translated accordingly.
• Integration with remote repositories on GitHub, GitLab, Gitea & Codeberg for commit history and showing the site source.
• Dark and light themes. Defaults to the OS setting, with a switcher in the navigation bar.
• Thorough documentation. See Mastering tabi Settings: A Comprehensive Guide.
• Perfect Lighthouse score (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO).
• Comprehensive multi-language support. Add as many languages as you wish.
• Support for comments using giscus, utterances, Hyvor Talk, or Isso.
• Code syntax highlighting with colours based on Catppuccin Frappé.
• Local search with an accessible, multi-lingual interface.
• KaTeX support for mathematical notation.
• Stylized and human readable Atom feed.
• Stylized and human readable sitemap.
• Mail encoding for spam protection.
• All JavaScript can be fully disabled.
• Customizable Table of Contents.
• Customizable secure headers.
• Copy button for code blocks.
• Quick navigation buttons.
• Custom copyright notice.
• Custom canonical URLs.
• Custom shortcodes.
• Customizable skins.
• Footnote backlinks.
• Social media cards.
• Responsive design.
• Projects page.
• Archive page.
• Social links.
• Tags.

Installation

To add tabi to you existing Zola site:

0. Initialize a Git repository in your project directory (if you haven't already):

git init

1. Add the theme as a git submodule:

git submodule add https://github.com/welpo/tabi.git themes/tabi

Or clone the theme into your themes directory:

git clone https://github.com/welpo/tabi.git themes/tabi

Required configuration

2. Enable the theme in your config.toml:

theme = "tabi"

3. Set a title in your config.toml:

title = "Your Site Title"

4. Configure code block highlighting in your config.toml:

[markdown]
highlight_code = true
highlight_theme = "css"

5. Create a content/_index.md file with the following content:

+++
title = "Home"
paginate_by = 5 # Set the number of posts per page
template = "index.html"
+++

If you want to serve your blog posts from a different path, such as blog/, add a section_path in the [extra] section of content/_index.md (this file will need pagination):

[extra]
section_path = "blog/_index.md"

Note: use the full path to the section's _index.md file. Simply using section_path = "blog/" will not work.

6. If you want an introduction section (see screenshot above), add these lines to content/_index.md:

[extra]
header = {title = "Hello! I'm tabi~", img = "img/main.webp", img_alt = "Your Name" }

The content outside the front matter will be rendered between the header title and the posts listing. In the screenshot above, it's the text that reads "tabi is a fast, lightweight, and modern Zola theme…".

7. If you want a multilingual site, you will need to set up each language. In config.toml, set the title and taxonomies for each language, like:

[languages.es]
title = "~/tabi"
taxonomies = [{name = "tags", feed = true}]

You will need an _index.{language_code}.md per language for each section (e.g. /blog or /projects) that you want to enable in that language.

The same is true for individual posts, which should have the exact same name as the default language, with an extra .{code} before the extension (e.g. the Spanish version of security.md would be security.es.md).

This configuration allows the language switcher to take the user to the translation of the current URL. If a translation doesn't exist, the 404 page will be displayed, with an explanation in each language set in the config.

To learn more about multilingual support, see the Frequently Asked Questions.

Updating tabi

If you added the theme as a git submodule, run:

git submodule update --recursive --remote

If you cloned it:

cd themes/tabi
git pull

Sites using tabi

Website	Creator	Description	Site Source
osc.garden	Óscar Fernández (welpo)	Data science, psychology, and Zola	Source
sandip.live	Sandip G (sandman)	Startups, tech and the good life	Source
seadve.github.io	Dave Patrick Caberto (SeaDve)	Personal blog and portfolio with custom CSS	Source
mikufan.page	Nadia	Personal blog	Source
tim-boettcher.online	Tim Böttcher	Insights and ramblings of a deafblind programmer	Source
www.richtman.au	Ariel Richtman	Personal tech blog	Source

Using tabi? Feel free to create a PR and add your site to this list.

Inspiration

This theme was inspired by:

• shadharon — tabi started as a fork of syedzayyan's theme;
• tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog;
• abridge;
• internetVin's blog.

Contributing

Please do! We appreciate bug reports, improvements to translations or documentation (however minor), feature requests…

Take a look at the Contributing Guidelines to learn more.

License

The code is available under the MIT license.