Section Blog Theme

Start your blog journey with Next.js, Nextra, and MDX using section themes. You can start your blog in less than two minutes, and you need only one command and zero configuration. Section theme comes with an inbuilt dark mode, a search bar, Customize Navigation, and SEO Support.

Adding your existing website to the showcase page.

Installation

The Installation of the section blog theme is a lot easier. You can install the section blog theme with the following command.

1pnpm add nextra section-blog-theme
2# or
3yarn add nextra section-blog-theme
4# or
5npm install nextra section-blog-theme

Configure the section blog with nextra

Create the following next.config.js file in your project’s root directory:

1// next.config.js
2
3const withNextra = require("nextra")({
4  theme: "section-blog-theme",
5  themeConfig: "./theme.config.jsx",
6});
7
8module.exports = withNextra();

import css

Next step to import css file from section blog theme inside your `_app.mdx' file.

1// _app.mdx
2
3import "section-blog-theme/styles.css";
4export default function App({ Component, pageProps }) {
5  return <Component {...pageProps} />;
6}

Create Theme Config file

The lastly create a theme.config.jsx or theme.config.tsx file in your root level.

1// theme.config.jsx or theme.config.tsx
2
3const themeConfig = {
4  settings: {
5    title: "Start your blog or portfolio using MDX, Next.Js, and Nextra.",
6    description: "Section blog theme is build with Nextjs and tailwind css.",
7    SiteURL: "https://officialrajdeepsingh.dev",
8    defaultSEO: {
9      title: "Start your blog or portfolio using MDX, Next.Js, and Nextra.",
10      titleTemplate: "%s | Section Blog Theme",
11      twitter: {
12        handle: "@FrontendWeb3",
13        site: "FrontendWeb3",
14        cardType: "summary_large_image",
15      },
16    },
17  },
18  bannerMessage:
19    "Start your markdown portfolio blog with nextjs, nextra, tailwind CSS, and Shadcn UI using <a style='margin: 0px 4px;text-decoration:underline;' target='_blank' href='https://www.npmjs.com/package/section-blog-theme'>  the section blog theme. </a>",
20  SocialLinks: [
21    {
22      name: "twitter",
23      url: "https://twitter.com/FrontendWeb3",
24    },
25    {
26      name: "linkedin",
27      url: "https://www.linkedin.com/company/frontendweb",
28    },
29    {
30      name: "github",
31      url: "https://github.com/frontendweb3/section-theme-blog",
32    },
33  ],
34  Logo: {
35    logo: (
36      <>
37        <svg
38          width="36"
39          height="36"
40          viewBox="0 0 434 420"
41          xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
42        >
43          <path
44            fillRule="evenodd"
45            clipRule="evenodd"
46            fill="currentColor"
47            d="M226.569 66.5458C222.348 59.1514 211.686 59.1514 207.464 66.5458L63.4636 318.753C59.2767 326.086 64.5719 335.207 73.0163 335.207H361.018C369.462 335.207 374.757 326.086 370.57 318.753L226.569 66.5458ZM217.017 270.333C235.355 270.333 250.221 256.557 250.221 239.563C250.221 222.57 235.355 208.793 217.017 208.793C198.679 208.793 183.813 222.57 183.813 239.563C183.813 256.557 198.679 270.333 217.017 270.333Z"
48          />
49        </svg>
50      </>
51    ),
52    link: "/",
53    target: "_blank",
54  },
55  PrimaryNavigation: [
56    {
57      href: "/",
58      title: "Home",
59    },
60    {
61      href: "/posts",
62      title: "Blog",
63    },
64    {
65      title: "Projects",
66      subNav: true,
67      subNavigation: [
68        {
69          title: "Personal Blog",
70          href: "https://officialrajdeepsingh.dev/",
71          description: "Check out my personal portfolio blog website.",
72        },
73        {
74          title: "Section Blog Theme",
75          href: "https://github.com/frontendweb3/section-blog-theme",
76          description: "Section blog theme is nextra based theme.",
77        },
78        {
79          title: "Awesome Nextjs",
80          href: "https://github.com/officialrajdeepsingh/awesome-nextjs",
81          description:
82            "A curated list of awesome Nextjs-based libraries that help build small and large-scale applications with next.js.",
83        },
84      ],
85    },
86    {
87      href: "/about",
88      title: "About",
89    },
90    {
91      href: "/contact",
92      title: "Contact",
93    },
94  ],
95  SecondaryNavigation: [
96    {
97      href: "/disclaimer",
98      title: "Disclaimer",
99    },
100    {
101      href: "/privacy-policy",
102      title: "Privacy policy",
103    },
104    {
105      href: "/contact",
106      title: "Contact",
107    },
108  ],
109};
110export default themeConfig;

rename your file

Lastly, rename the file extension the .tsx or .jsx to a .mdx. for every file inside the pages folder. But does not change the _document.jsx or _document.tsx file extension.