NexT version 5 works fine with Hexo 3, but for frequent users, you maybe need to upgrade version 5 to 7 to get features and supports in new Theme-Next repository.
There are no hard breaking changes between 5.1.x and the latest version. It's change major version to 7 because:
- Main repo was rebased from iissnan's profile to theme-next organization.
- Most libraries under the
next/source/lib
directory was moved out to external repos under NexT organization. - 3rd-party plugin
hexo-wordcount
was replaced byhexo-symbols-count-time
becausehexo-symbols-count-time
no have any external Node.js dependencies, no have language filter which causes better performance on speed at site generation.
So, we suggest to update from version 5 to version 7 in this way:
-
You don't touch old
next
dir and just do some copies of NexT files:
1.1._config.yml
ornext.yml
(if you used data-files).
1.2. Custom CSS styles what placed innext/source/css/_custom/*
andnext/source/css/_variables/*
directories.
1.3. Custom layout styles what placed innext/layout/_custom/*
.
1.4. Any another possible custom additions which can be finded by compare tools between repos. -
Clone new repo to any another directory instead of
next
. For example, innext-reloaded
directory:git clone https://github.com/theme-next/hexo-theme-next themes/next-reloaded
. So, you don't touch your old NexT 5.1.x directory and can work with newnext-reloaded
dir. -
Go to Hexo main config and set theme parameter:
theme: next-reloaded
. So, yournext-reloaded
directory must loading with your generation. If you may see any bugs or you simply not like this version, you anytime can switch for 5.1.x version back. -
Update language configuration (For Chinese)
Since v6.0.3,
zh-Hans
has been renamed tozh-CN
: https://github.com/theme-next/hexo-theme-next/releases/tag/v6.0.3Users upgrading to v6.0.3 and later need to explicitly modify the
language
configuration in the Hexo main config file_config.yml
, otherwise the language display is incorrect. -
Update Hexo and Hexo plugin
If after completing the above steps, an error occurs when executing
hexo s
orhexo g
, it means that there may be a conflict between the old version of Hexo / Hexo plugin and the new version of the theme NexT. We recommend upgrading Hexo to versions 4.0 and higher and upgrading Hexo plugins to the latest version. You can runnpm outdated
to see all the upgradeable plugins.
And how to enable 3rd-party libraries see here.