Cela

A minimalist documentation/blog theme.

Author: Edward Zhang

This theme requires Zola version 0.19.0 and above

License: MIT

Homepage: https://github.com/edwardzcn-decade/cela

Live Demo: https://edwardzcn-decade.github.io/cela/

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Last updated: 2025-12-06T11:43:01+08:00

Cela

Cela is a simple, lightweight Zola theme, inspired by Hugo PaperMod.

The style sheet is adapted from Catppuccin. If you like it, please give it a 🌟 on GitHub. Thanks!

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Theme Features

Tags, Categories, and Taxonomies

Cela provides Hexo/Hugo-like tags and categories, compatible with Zola taxonomies. In front matter:

[taxonomies]
tags = ["Rust", "Zola"]
categories = ["Programming"]

or in YAML style:

taxonomies:
  tags: ["Rust", "Zola"]
  categories: ["Programming"]

Zola taxonomies as recommended are more powerful for structuring your contents. See zola taxonomies for more information.

Quick Start

If you only need installation of the theme, skip to Theme Installation.

Zola Installation

# macOS
brew install zola
# Alpine Linux
apk add zola
# Arch Linux
pacman -S zola
# Docker
docker pull ghcr.io/getzola/zola:v0.19.1

Create a Zola site

Creates your first Zola site.

If myblog already exists but only contains hidden files (like .git), Zola will alswo populate the site.

zola init myblog
# or
# populate the current directory
zola init

Any choices you make during the initialization can be changed later in the config.toml file.

Theme Installation

By Git submodule

git submodule add https://github.com/edwardzcn-decade/cela themes/cela
git submodule update --init --force --recursive
git submodule sync

Then set the theme in your config.toml file.

theme = "cela"

By Download Releases

  1. Download the latest release archive from the Cela releases.
  2. Unzip to themes/cela in your Zola project.
  3. Set theme in config.toml.
  4. (Optional) Delete unused example content under content/ if you start fresh.

👐 Contributing

[!NOTE]

If you find this project helpful and would like to support its development, see our CONTRIBUTING and CODE_OF_CONDUCT guidelines.

LICENSE

MIT