🧊 Xeo for Lume 🔥

Wondering how Xeo differs from Simple Blog? This post is for you!

Once you install Deno, the fastest and easiest way to configure this theme is the Lume init command, which you can also copy easily from the Xeo theme page. Running:

deno run -A https://lume.land/init.ts --theme=xeo

will create a new project with Xeo configured.

This post only has the title in the filename, 2025-12-solstice.md. Because the partial date is incomplete and does not have a day value, it gets parsed as part of the title. The date (as 2025-12-21T15:03Z, the 2025 December Solstice) the author, and the tags are in front matter, but there is no need to put a title, thanks to Lume’s Extract date plugin.

Elegance is power cloaked in simplicity.

– Dan Forsyth

A post with date, author, and tags in the front matter, but no title. The source file named index.md is inside a folder named no-title. When Lume processes the index.md file contained in the no-title folder, the basename gets transformed to “No title” in the built site because the index.md file works like an index.html file and assumes the name of its directory.

There is a draft in the example posts, “Stardate foundation,” that tests the scenario with a date and title in the filename. In the 2025-12 solstice filename (2025-12-solstice.md) the partial, incomplete date gets parsed as part of the title because it lacks a day value.