radion

A sleek, modern blog theme.

Author: Micah Kepe

This theme requires Zola version 0.20.0 and above

License: MIT

Homepage: https://github.com/micahkepe/radion

Live Demo: https://micahkepe.com/radion/

Tags:

• SEO
• search
• accessible

Last updated: 2025-09-19T13:25:22-05:00

radion

A sleek, modern blog theme for Zola. See the live site demo here.

radion noun

1. (physics) A scalar field in higher-dimensional spacetimes

Features

• Code Snippet Clipboards
  • Line(s)-specific highlighting
• Latex Support
• Light/Dark mode support
• Search functionality
• Table of Contents option
• Footnote support
• Built-in comments option (Giscus)
• Open Graph cover image selection

Contents and Configuration Guide

• Installation
• Options
  • Top-menu
  • Title
  • Author Attribution
    • Defining a Global Default Author in config.toml
    • Defining Author(s) Per-Page
  • Favicon
  • GitHub
  • Code Snippets
    • Syntax Highlighting:
    • Enhanced Codeblocks (Clipboard Support and Language Tags)
  • LaTex Support
  • Searchbar
  • Light and Dark Modes
  • Table of Contents
  • Comments
  • Post Revision History
  • Set Post Open Graph Image (Cover Image)
  • Custom Fonts
    • Font Weights by Provider
    • Examples
• Acknowledgements

Installation

First download this theme to your themes directory:

cd themes
git clone https://github.com/micahkepe/radion

and then enable it in your config.toml:

theme = "radion"

This theme requires your index section (content/_index.md) to be paginated to work:

paginate_by = 5

The posts should therefore be in directly under the content folder.

The theme requires tags and categories taxonomies to be enabled in your config.toml:

taxonomies = [
    # You can enable/disable RSS
    {name = "categories", feed = true},
    {name = "tags", feed = true},
]

If you want to paginate taxonomies pages, you will need to overwrite the templates as it only works for non-paginated taxonomies by default.

Options

Top-menu

Set a field in extra with a key of radion_menu:

radion_menu = [
    {url = "$BASE_URL", name = "Home"},
    {url = "$BASE_URL/categories", name = "Categories"},
    {url = "$BASE_URL/tags", name = "Tags"},
    {url = "https://google.com", name = "Google"},
]

If you put $BASE_URL in a url, it will automatically be replaced by the actual site URL.

Title

The site title is shown on the homepage. As it might be different from the <title> element that the title field in the config represents, you can set the radion_title instead.

Author Attribution

You may define the author(s) of a page in either the root config.toml file, or on a per-page basis in the page's frontmatter.

The order of precedence for determining the author shown in a page’s footer is:

1. page.extra.author (highest precedence)
2. page.authors
3. page.config.author (lowest precedence, default)

Defining a Global Default Author in config.toml

In config.toml:

[extra]
author = "John Smith"

Defining Author(s) Per-Page

At the top of a page in its frontmatter (wrap this in +++):

1. Define a single author for the page:

title = "..."
date = 1970-01-01

[extra]
author = "John Smith"

Alternatively, you can define the page.authors variable with a single entry:

title = "..."
date = 1970-01-01
authors = ["John Smith"]

2. Define multiple authors for a page:

title = "..."
date = 1970-01-01
authors = ["John Smith", "Joe Schmoe", "Jane Doe"]

[!NOTE] Do not define both extra.author and authors in the same page unless you want extra.author to take precedence.

Favicon

To change the default favicon:

1. Create your own favicon folder with the following site: RealFaviconGenerator

   • Set the 'Favicon path' option to /icons/favicon/

2. Unzip the created folder

3. Create a static/icons/ directory if it does not already exist

4. Place the unzipped favicon/ directory in static/icons/.

By default, favicons are enabled, however, if for some reason you would like to disable favicons, set the following in your config.toml:

[extra]
favicon = false

GitHub

To enable a GitHub reference link in the header, set the following in your config.toml:

[extra]
github = "https://github.com/your-github-link"

Code Snippets

Syntax Highlighting:

[markdown]
# Whether to do syntax highlighting
# Theme can be customized by setting the `highlight_theme` variable to a theme
# supported by Zola
highlight_code = true

# For a complete list of themes, see:
# https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/configuration/#syntax-highlighting
highlight_theme = "one-dark"

Enhanced Codeblocks (Clipboard Support and Language Tags)

[extra]
codeblock = true

[!NOTE] Ligatures are disabled by default as defined in the _theme.scss file.

LaTex Support

To enable LaTeX support with MathJax, set the following in your config.toml:

[extra]
latex = true

Searchbar

To enable a searchbar at the top of the page navigation, set the following in your config.toml:

build_search_index = true

[search]
index_format = "elasticlunr_json"

[extra]
enable_search = true

Light and Dark Modes

To set the color theme of the site, set the following in your config.toml:

[extra]
theme = "toggle" # options: {light, dark, auto, toggle}

There are four options for the theme field:

• light: Always light mode
• dark: Always dark mode
• auto: Automatically switch between light and dark mode based on the user's system preferences
• toggle: Allow the user to toggle between light and dark mode

Table of Contents

To enable a table of contents on a page, add the following to the front matter of the page:

[extra]
toc = true

Comments

[!NOTE] Giscus comments assumes that you are hosting the blog site via GitHub Pages and thus have access to GitHub Discussions.

First, follow the instructions at giscus.app. This includes installing the Giscus app and enabling discussions on the GitHub repository that you host the website code. Additionally, fill in the repository path in the prompt. Then, from the generated script, fill in the corresponding values in the config.toml:

[extra]
comments = true  # {true, false}; sets global enabling of comments by default
giscus_repo = "FILL ME IN"
giscus_repo_id = "FILL ME IN"
giscus_data_category_id = "FILL ME IN"
# giscus_data_category = "General" # Default to "General"

Comments can be enabled or disabled on a per page basis by editing the page's front matter. For example, to disable comments on a specific post:

[extra]
comments = false

The config.toml value for comments takes precedence and priority. For example, if you globally disable comments in your config.toml by setting comments = false, then trying to enabling comments through a page's front matter will have no effect.

Post Revision History

To enable revision history links that allow readers to view the commit history for individual posts, configure the following in your config.toml:

[extra]
# Enable revision history globally
revision_history = true
# Your blog's GitHub repository URL
blog_github_repo_url = "https://github.com/username/repository-name"

Revision history can be enabled or disabled on a per-page basis by adding the following to a page's front matter:

[extra]
revision_history = true  # or false to disable for this page

When enabled, a "(revision history)" link will appear in the page footer that links directly to the GitHub commit history for that specific content file, allowing readers to see how the post has evolved over time.

Set Post Open Graph Image (Cover Image)

Open Graph is a standard for embedding rich previews of content on the Internet. It is used by social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to display a preview of a page when a user shares the page on their social media network.

For example, to set the Open Graph image for a post my-post to be the page asset cover.png, add the following to the front matter of the post:

1. Make sure the image is located in the page's content directory (i.e. content/my-post/. For example:

   content/
   └── my-post/
       ├── index.md
       ├── cover.png        # Your cover image
       └── assets/
           └── other-image.jpg
   

   or

   content/
   └── my-post/
       ├── index.md
       └── assets/
           ├── other-image.jpg
           └── cover.png    # Your cover image
   

2. Add the following to the front matter of the post:

[extra]
cover_image = "cover.png"

[!NOTE] The image must be located within the page's content directory and cover_image expects just the filename of the image (e.g., "cover.png", not a path like "assets/cover.png"). The first filename match will be used.

Custom Fonts

Currently three font CDN sites are supported:

1. Google Font ("googlefont"): Fonts from fonts.google.com
2. Fontsource ("fontsource"): Self-hosted fonts from fontsource.org. Uses WOFF2 files.
3. ZeoSeven Font ("zeoseven"): Fonts from fonts.zeoseven.com. Requires a font_id for URL construction.

To configure, add entries under [extra] in your config.toml:

Font Weights by Provider

Examples

# Google Fonts
[extra]
font_cdn = "googlefont"
font_name = "Inter"
font_weights = [300, 400, 500, 700]
font_display = "swap"

# Fontsource
[extra]
font_cdn = "fontsource"
font_name = "JetBrains Mono"
font_weights = ["main"]

# ZeoSeven
[extra]
font_cdn = "zeoseven"
font_name = "Custom Font"
font_id = 443
font_weights = [400, 700]

# Custom CSS
[extra]
font_cdn = "custom"
font_name = "My Custom Font"
font_css_urls = [
    "https://example.com/fonts/custom-font.css",
    "https://cdn.example.com/typography.css"
]

Acknowledgements

Lots of inspiration and code snippets taken from these awesome Zola themes:

• after-dark by Vincent Prouillet

• apollo by not-matthias

• redux by SeniorMars.