Bearblog Resource List
We at the Gazette have a little repository of our own to collect any cool Bearblog resources we come across, and wanted to share it!
Below, you'll find links to code snippets you can implement on your blog, whole themes, browser extensions, dashboard scripts, help on how to add social aspects (guestbooks, webmentions etc.) to your blog, and more!
If you have any more, feel free to send them to us and we'll add it!
Dashboard adjustments
This affects the Dashboard UI on Bearblog, which includes the post editor and analytics page.
- Bear Blog auto-save
- Dashboard "catppuccin" CSS
- Editor for easier formatting
- Sort Bear Analytics for toast count
- Edit current post button
- Markdown Toolbar in the post editor
- Bear dashboard writing shortcuts
- Bear dashboard notes
- Kami's user scripts
- Bulk canonical URL updater script
- Various Dashboard Design Improvements
Code Snippets
This is separate from the Themes because you might just wanna include this tidbit in your existing theme.
- 404 page styling
- Darkmode Lightmode toggle
- Other post list styles
- Check box hack for buttons and menus etc.
- Custom image for your toast button
- Custom cursor
- Table of Contents
- Show post time next to date
- Display post list sorted by month
- Better Admonitions
- Dotted post list
- Image gallery
- Polaroid image gallery
- Polaroid style images rewritten
- Floating text effect
- Image captions
- Variety of Code snippets by loveberry
- Embeddable Advent Calendar
- Photo gallery
- Styling individual posts
- Various blog helper styles
- Random link (external)
- Random link (internal)
- Add a search feature
- Estimated reading time
- Customizing the upvote button
- Count your posts
- Adding a private feedback box
- Create a gallery
- Dark/Light mode switch
- Another Dark/Light Mode Toggle
- New toast button
- External Link Marker
- Feature Image Generator
- Letterboxd embed styles for bear
- Random Posts
- Multiple ways of removing the toast button
- Image Filters
Consider also checking out:
Microblog and Statuspages
Themes
- Bear Blog theme editor
- Custom themes Browser add-on
- Bearming
- Bear Hug
- Bearly
- BearMin
- BearBone
- Bear Halloween
- Bearry Christmas
- Pink Friday
- ValenTheme
- Bubbletea
- Agave
- 2 Bear themes and 1 dash theme
- Pixel Bear Theme
Social: Guestbooks, Comments, Webmention
For anything to interact with your readers that isn't email.
- Letterbird
- Webmentions
- Komments
- Utterances
- Bluesky Comments
- Kami's Guestbook Service
- Atabook Guestbook
- Selfhosted Guestbook via Cloudflare Workers
- Guestbook styling for manual guestbook
RSS feed, Atom, Blogroll etc.
- RSS Feed of blogs in Discord via Blogkitty
- RSS Tools for users and developers
- Miniroll Blogroll Service
Backups, Converters, Export
For when you wanna back up your blog, convert blog posts, or export them in general beyond the option in Bearblog's settings.
- Bear Blog backups
- Bear Blog converter
- Convert bear blog csv exports to markdown files
- wp2bear wordpress plugin
Other
- Explore a random post on Bear
- Bookmarklet to quickly edit posts
- Chrome extension
- Bearblog customization tips
- Feature Image Generator
- Contrast Checker Bookmarklet
Thank you to the people who contribute so much to this platform or the web in general!
Stay tuned, because we are planning an event where you can contribute too :)