Hexo Theme Researcher

A modern, responsive, and professional academic portfolio theme for researchers.

If you find this project useful, a ⭐️ would be greatly appreciated!

Design Philosophy

The Researcher theme is designed with the following principles in mind:

• Professional & Clean: A minimalist design that puts your academic work in the spotlight
• Modern & Responsive: Built with the latest web technologies for optimal viewing on all devices
• Accessible & Fast: Optimized for performance and accessibility
• Customizable: Easy to personalize with your own colors, fonts, and content
• Academic-Focused: Specialized features for showcasing publications, projects, and academic achievements

Features

• 📱 Fully responsive design - Mobile-first approach with optimal viewing on all devices
• 🎨 30+ DaisyUI themes - Light, dark, cupcake, bumblebee, wireframe and more
• 🏠 Enhanced homepage - Recent Notes, Featured Publications & Projects in 3-column layouts
• 📝 Blog/Notes system - Real-time search, filtering, and clean typography
• 📚 Publications management - Academic showcase with DOI, PDF links, and badges
• 📊 Project showcase - Status tracking, GitHub integration, and collaboration details
• 📄 Professional CV page - Downloadable resume with modular sections
• 🎤 Talks & presentations - Conference and seminar showcase
• 💻 Enhanced code display - Syntax highlighting with line numbers and copy functionality
• 🔍 Site-wide search - Real-time search across all content (requires hexo-generator-search)
• 🔗 Academic profiles - Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchGate, GitHub, LinkedIn
• ⚡ Performance optimized - Fast loading with modern web technologies

Usage

Prerequisites

• Node.js (version 12.0 or higher)
• npm or yarn package manager

Step-by-Step Installation

1. Install Hexo CLI globally:

npm install -g hexo-cli

2. Create a new Hexo site:

hexo init my-academic-site
cd my-academic-site

3. Install required Hexo packages:

yarn install

4. Install theme dependencies (required for search functionality):

yarn add hexo-generator-search --save

5. Clone the theme:

git clone https://github.com/jiehua1995/hexo-theme-researcher themes/hexo-theme-researcher

6. Configure your main site by editing _config.yml in your site's root directory:

# Site Information
title: Your Name
subtitle: Your Academic Title
description: Your research description and academic bio
keywords: research, academic, portfolio, your-field
author: Your Name
language: en
timezone: ''

# URL Configuration
url: https://yourusername.github.io
root: /
permalink: :year/:month/:day/:title/
permalink_defaults:
  lang: en

# Theme Configuration
theme: hexo-theme-researcher

# Search Configuration (Required for search functionality)
search:
  path: search.xml
  field: post
  content: true

# Deployment (example for GitHub Pages)
deploy:
  type: git
  repo: https://github.com/yourusername/yourusername.github.io.git
  branch: main

7. Create the required pages that the theme uses to display your academic content.

Before using the theme, you need to create the following pages in your Hexo site:

# Create all required pages
hexo new page publications
hexo new page projects
hexo new page talks
hexo new page cv
hexo new page notes
hexo new page contact

After creating each page, you must set the correct layout in the front-matter of each page's markdown file:

Publications page (source/publications/index.md):

---
title: Publications
date: 2024-01-01
layout: publications
---

Projects page (source/projects/index.md):

---
title: Projects
date: 2024-01-01
layout: projects
---

CV page (source/cv/index.md):

---
title: CV
date: 2024-01-01
layout: cv
---

Talks page (source/talks/index.md):

---
title: Talks
date: 2024-01-01
layout: talks
---

Notes page (source/notes/index.md):

---
title: Notes
date: 2024-01-01
layout: notes
---

Contact page (source/contact/index.md):

---
title: Contact
date: 2024-01-01
layout: contact
---

Important Notes

• The layout field must match the page name exactly
• The Notes page will automatically display all your blog posts
• The Recent Notes section on the homepage will show the 3 latest posts automatically

Edit _config.yml in the theme directory to customize your site:

8. Configure the theme by editing the _config.yml file located in the themes/hexo-theme-researcher directory. Edit _config.yml in the theme directory to customize your site.

   It will be better to copy the _config.yml out as _config.hexo-theme-researcher.yml into the main folder.

cp themes/hexo-theme-researcher/_config.yml _config.hexo-theme-researcher.yml

9. Create blog posts by adding markdown files in the source/_posts directory. To create blog posts, use the standard Hexo command:

hexo new post "Your Post Title"

​ Then you could write whatever you want, those notes will be shown in Notes page.

9. Create data files in the source/_data directory to manage your academic content.

   Create the following data files in your site's source/_data directory. You can find example data in the theme's demo_data folder:

• publications.yml: Your academic publications
• projects.yml: Research projects
• talks.yml: Presentations and talks
• cv.yml: Your CV/resume information

License

This theme is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Credits

• Hexo
• Tailwind CSS
• DaisyUI
• Academic Icons
• Font Awesome

Contributors

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