Hexo Corporate is a Hexo theme that turns a static site into a professional corporate website, providing a landing page, blog, portfolio, and contact pages built on the Metronic Corporate Frontend framework.
What is Hexo Corporate?
Hexo Corporate is a full-featured theme for the Hexo static site generator, built on the Metronic Corporate Frontend freebie framework. It takes a plain Hexo blog and outputs a professional company website with a custom landing page, a blog with tags and categories, a project portfolio, an about page, and a contact page with Google Maps. The theme is maintained by Patrick Steadman and distributed on GitHub, and its included Metronic components are licensed for personal and commercial use.
What makes Hexo Corporate stand out?
- Custom landing page — Replace the default archive index with a homepage you edit in
source/index.ejs; you must removehexo-generator-indexfrompackage.jsonto activate it. - Blog with tags and categories — Standard Hexo post support with extra front matter fields for
thumbnail,lede, andauthorto enrich the blog and archive pages. - Project portfolio — A Projects page template is included in
themes/corporate/_source; copy it to your site'ssourcedirectory and fill it with your work. - Contact page with Google Maps — The contact page is driven by theme config: address lines, phone, email, Skype, and map latitude/longitude coordinates.
- Swiftype search — Set
swiftype_install_keyin_config.ymlto add hosted site search to your pages. - Disqus comments — Add
disqus_shortnameto the theme config to enable comment threading on posts. - Six color schemes — Choose from red, gray, green, orange, blue, or turquoise via the
color_schemesetting. - Metronic CSS components — The theme bundles CSS and JavaScript components from Keenthemes' Metronic Corporate Frontend freebie, with Fancybox for photo lightboxes.
Who should use Hexo Corporate?
- Small companies and startups — Publish a professional marketing site with a landing page, blog, and contact form without hiring a designer.
- Hexo developers — Save time by starting from a pre-built corporate theme and focus on content and custom components.
- Agencies and freelancers — Create client portfolio sites with a Projects page and match brand colors via the color-scheme option.
What can you do with Hexo Corporate?
- Company marketing sites: Build a homepage, about page, and contact page with a Google Map and form, then link them from the header menu.
- Blogging teams: Write posts with tags, categories, author names, ledes, and thumbnails, and add Disqus for reader comments.
- Portfolio showcases: Display client work on the Projects page and keep it linked from the main navigation.
How does Hexo Corporate work?
Clone the repository into themes/corporate, copy the contents of themes/corporate/_source into your Hexo site's source directory, set theme: corporate in the site's _config.yml, and run npm install followed by hexo server to preview. Configuration lives in themes/corporate/_config.yml for menu links, social URLs, color scheme, integrations, and contact details.
FAQ
Is Hexo Corporate free?
The theme is published on GitHub, and the included Metronic components come with a license that allows use in personal and commercial projects, with the only restriction being resale as a stock item in theme marketplaces.
What color schemes does Hexo Corporate support?
Six: red, gray, green, orange, blue, and turquoise. You set the active color by editing color_scheme in the theme's _config.yml.
How do I enable a custom landing page?
Remove the hexo-generator-index line from your project's package.json, then edit source/index.ejs with your homepage content.
Does Hexo Corporate support comments?
Yes. Add your Disqus shortname to disqus_shortname in the theme config, and Disqus will load on your posts.
Can I change the navigation menu?
Yes. The menu block in themes/corporate/_config.yml maps menu labels to URLs, so you can add or reorder Home, Projects, Blog, Contact, and About links.
