HCZ Material is a Jekyll blog theme styled after Google's Material Design, built for personal authors, programmers, and bloggers who need a searchable, category-organized static blog. It processes Markdown posts and pages into a static HTML site with homepage pagination, tag archives, project listings, and built-in client-side search. A working demo is live at https://codeasashu.github.io/hcz-jekyll-blog, and the source repository on GitHub has collected 254 stars.
What is HCZ Material?
HCZ Material is a Jekyll theme that generates a Material Design–inspired blog from Markdown content. You write posts in Markdown, and the theme outputs a static website with a homepage, category pages, tag pages, a projects area, and a search index. It runs on Jekyll, the Ruby-based static site generator, so the output is plain HTML that can be hosted on GitHub Pages, Netlify, or any static file server. The theme was created by Ashutosh (GitHub user codeasashu) and shared as a public repository.
Key Features
- Sitemap and XML Feed — Automatically creates a sitemap.xml for search engines and an RSS/XML feed for feed readers.
- Site Search — Includes a client-side search feature that lets visitors find posts without an external search service.
- Projects and tags — Adds a projects area for showcasing work, and both posts and projects can be tagged for browsing.
- Pagination on the homepage — Splits the post list into multiple pages to keep the homepage lightweight.
- Posts under category — Organizes content into categories and generates category pages for each one.
- Related Posts — Suggests other posts on the same topic at the end of each article.
- Highlight pre — Applies syntax highlighting to code blocks for better readability in technical posts.
- Next & Previous Post — Adds navigation links at the bottom of each post to move between adjacent articles.
- Disqus comment — Integrates the Disqus commenting platform so readers can discuss posts.
Who is it for?
- Personal authors — write a personal blog in Markdown and get a clean Material Design site with search, categories, and Disqus comments for reader interaction.
- Programmers — publish technical posts with syntax-highlighted code and maintain a projects section to show off GitHub repositories or apps.
- Bloggers — run a content site that needs pagination, related posts, and next/previous navigation to keep readers browsing.
What can you do with HCZ Material?
- Start a personal blog — write posts, and the theme handles sitemap, RSS feed, search, and category organization automatically.
- Build a project portfolio — add projects and tag them so visitors can filter by technology or topic.
- Publish a long-form content site — use categories, related posts, and pagination to structure large amounts of articles.
