Ahoy, Sailor! Drop your anchor and board our ship. We've got a theme for you to plunder.
Sailor is a modern, lightweight theme designed to work with Anchor CMS; why you may ask? Simply because Anchor CMS is possibly the best CMS I've ever used and as such it should have a vast library of amazing themes, or so you'd think. Due to Anchor sailing in the shadow of other CMS's like October and Wordpress, it appears like not too many developers have made themes for it. In this case, anchor needs momentum, so smaller = faster right? Definitely! That's why when designing this theme I intended to make it as lightweight as possible and by only using styles that were required.
Inspiration for this design came from the Anchor Docs and other online blogs I've been to. Not to mention that some of the code styles came from my experience with Github. Anyway, you can view a live demo of 
Installing Sailor is as easy as the next theme! On a UNIX system you can do the following:
cd /ANCHOR_INSTALL_FOLDER/themes/
curl -LOk https://github.com/CaptainRoss/Sailor/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv Sailor-master Sailor
rm master.zip
On windows, you can download the master zip file from this repo and manually move the contents to your themes folder, or you can install the GitHub command line toolbelt and follow the steps below.
Optionally if you have the github command line toolbelt installed, you can do the following:
cd /ANCHOR_INSTALL_FOLDER/themes/
git clone https://github.com/CaptainRoss/Sailor.git
- Completely mobile responsive
- Includes Open-Graph protocol
- Social-Media account icons
- No-render blocking CSS
- No-render blocking Javascript
- A blazing-fast 1s load time
- Emoji Support (Twemoji)
Check out our submissions page on FeatHub
Why should I lie? I love my theme, and you'll love the speed! Still don't believe me? Maybe this screenshot will help!
"I'm no wizard mate, but this can be faked with inspect element or Photoshop!", well the only way you'll see the speed, is by trying the theme yourself!
If you've ever been on reddit, you'll have seen that people make custom "Flairs" by using dummy links, so with this in mind I decided to implement custom dummy links for emojis, so that you can use them anywhere on your blog. To use an emoji, do as follows:
[](#{emojiname} "{emojiname} Emoji")Replace {emojiname} with the name of the emoji you wish to use. A list of emoji's can be found here, just make sure to remove the colons ("::") and replace underscores ("_") with hyphens ("-"). For example: ":heart_eyes:" becomes "heart-eyes", and this would be the name of the emoji! 😄
One feature that this theme has, is the ability for social icons in the footer of your blog! Currently we only support; Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, Instagram and YouTube. This is still a fairly new feature added and it may not be fully refined yet, so if you have a problem, let me know in the issues section of this repo. To add a link to your accounts do the following:
- Create a new custom variable under Extend > Site Variables in your admin panel.
- Enter the following:
- Name: (youtube, twitter, facebook, github or instagram)
- Value: Everything after the domain name (/pages/{long_facebook_url}, /channel/{long_youtube_url}, /{handle})
- Click Update
- You should now see the desired Icon in the footer of your blog
Uhhhh, how do I remove that Sailor logo (But who'd want to do that, am I right?)
Firstly head over to this theme's image folder, located in "{Base_Folder}/themes/Sailor/img/". Next, you'll want to replace the file called "logo.png" with your own logo!
What are the dimensions of the logo?
The dimensions of the logo are 22x22px, yes yes, I know it's small, but the smaller the better right?!; Don't forget, dynamically resizing images through "max-width" means increased loading time and mobile users along with Google hate Dynamic people, so don't be that guy!
Does this theme support all the aspects of markdown?
We support all shorthand styles so that includes, italics, bold text, tables and everything else under the sun, except coloured code blocks because that'd require a more advanced pre-processor and themes don't control this.