Lekhz

A text focussed and minimal personal portfolio theme with dark mode.

Author: Rahul Tiwari

This theme requires Zola version 0.38 and above

License: MIT

Homepage: https://github.com/ba11b0y/lekhz

Tags:

• minimal
• clean
• blog
• responsive
• personal
• simple
• minimalist
• portfolio
• text-focussed
• dark
• dark-mode
• rss

Last updated: 2025-06-25T23:58:28-07:00

lekhz

lekhz is a simple, minimalistic, and fast personal website template for Zola. Ported from the Hugo theme lekh

Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Customization

Features

• Social media links
• Markdown supported
• Easy to personalize
• RSS feed
• Dark mode (taken from https://www.gwern.net/ as it is.)
• GoatCounter counts(analytics). Know more about GoatCounter here

Installation

Create a new Zola site if you haven't already.

zola init my-site
cd my-site
git init

Add the theme as a submodule:

git submodule add https://github.com/ba11b0y/lekhz.git themes/lekhz

OR

Clone the theme

cd themes
git clone https://github.com/ba11b0y/lekhz.git

and then enable it in your config.toml:

theme = "lekhz"

To start with, copy the contents of the content folder to your new site.

cp -r themes/lekhz/content/* content/

Customization options

Add the following to your config.toml file in the [extra] section:

[extra]
lekhz_name = "Rahul Tiwari"
lekhz_about = "About me description here"
lekhz_email = "jprrahultiwari@gmail.com"
lekhz_resume = "resume.pdf"
lekhz_post_limit = 3
lekhz_goatcounter_code = ""
# Example profiles configuration
lekhz_profiles = [
    { name = "GitHub", url = "https://github.com/ba11b0y" },
    { name = "Twitter", url = "https://x.com/ba11b0y" },
    { name = "LinkedIn", url = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ba11b0y/" },
    { name = "Goodreads", url = "https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/91520565-rahul-tiwari"}
]

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