Andromeda is a lightweight photojournal & blog theme designed for Zola.

With built-in support for galleries and some options for customization, Andromeda is designed for photojournalism without complications.

Index demo:

Post demo:

Assuming you already have a site set up (see the Zola guide for setting up a site),

1. Create a themes directory in the root of your site if it does not already exist.
2. Clone the theme into your themes directory:

   git clone https://github.com/Pixadus/andromeda-theme themes/andromeda
   

3. Duplicate the structure of the the config.toml file found in themes/andromeda/config.toml or this repository within your own config.toml.
4. Set the theme to Andromeda, by including theme = andromeda in your config.toml file.

To create a new post, create a .md file within /content, with the header format:

+++
title = "Post title"
date = 2023-04-25
description = "Post description"
extra = {header_img = "image-url"}
+++

Note: The +++ are necessary.

The header_img field is the image shown on the homepage of the blog and in the heading of each page. It can be a remote URL or local - if local, by default this will be files stored in the static folder, or /images in the URL.

Galleries can be set up by using the following template in your Markdown file:

<div class="gallery">
    <a href="original_photo1.jpg" data-ngthumb="thumbnail_photo1.jpg"></a>
    <a href="original_photo2.jpg" data-ngthumb="thumbnail_photo2.jpg"></a>
</div>

For more or less photos, use <a href> tags. Flickr provides a good hosting option as it automatically generates thumbnails for you.

Andromeda supports custom navbar links - see config.toml for an example. You may also set a custom favicon.ico though config.toml.

If you wish to customize the design of the gallery, basic Javascript knowledge will be necessary. Andromeda uses nanogallery2 by default - the documentation can be found here. Customizations to the gallery design are done within the {% macro pagefooter() %} block within /templates/macros.html.

By default, this script is divided into three sections (indicated by item==): single-image, two-image and three+ image gallery setups.

The demo images used included Antelope Canyon by Anishkumar Sugumaran and Bryce Canyon by Marco Isler.