Creating Chinese and English Blogs with Hexo

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Since joining Amazon, I have had more exposure to English and foreign colleagues. The need to practice using English has grown stronger. Also, to connect more with the international world, I decided to create my own English blog.

Steps

Use the Chinese blog as a template and create an English blog.

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cp -r Hexo HexoEn

Delete the unused Chinese posts and resources from HexoEn.

Create a new repo on GitHub: “en”.

Modify the HexoEn _config.yml configuration file. Note that the deployment branch is gh-pages, GitHub’s default Pages branch. If yours is different, you need to go to the repo’s Setting->Pages and configure your custom branch:

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language: 
- en
deploy:
  type: git
  repo: git@github.com:YoungForest/en.git
  branch: gh-pages
theme_config:
  menu:
    home: / || fa fa-home
    about: /about/ || fa fa-user
    tags: /tags/ || fa fa-tags
    categories: /categories/ || fa fa-th
    archives: /archives/ || fa fa-archive
    中文: https://youngforest.github.io || fa fa-language # Icons can be searched on this site: https://fontawesome.com/v4.7/icons/

The Chinese Hexo _config.yml configuration file:

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language: 
- zh-CN
- en
theme_config:
  menu:
    home: / || fa fa-home
    about: /about/ || fa fa-user
    tags: /tags/ || fa fa-tags
    categories: /categories/ || fa fa-th
    archives: /archives/ || fa fa-archive
    English: https://youngforest.github.io/en/ || fa fa-globe

This way, the Chinese and English blogs can link to each other from the menu.

Deploy the blog and see how it looks.

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hexo generate -d

Push HexoEn to the remote as well for backup and synchronization. Note that this uses the same repo as deploy, but a different branch.

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git remote remove origin
git remote add origin git@github.com:YoungForest/en.git
git push -u origin master

Final Result

Chinese blog: https://youngforest.github.io
English blog: https://youngforest.github.io/en/