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title: About Icarus
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### The blog theme you may fall in love with, coming to Hexo. [Preview](http://ppoffice.github.io/hexo-theme-icarus/)
#### [View Documentation](https://github.com/ppoffice/hexo-theme-icarus/wiki)
It is strongly recommended that you read the docs before using Icarus.
## Features
### Profile Sidebar
A nice place to show yourself. You can add your own information in your site's `_config.yml`
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### Self-hosted Insite Search Engine
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With the help of [Insight Search ](https://github.com/ppoffice/hexo-theme-icarus/wiki/Search#insight-search ), you can search anything inside your site without any third-party plugin.
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### Custom Comment Services
Icarus supports several comment services, give you better choices to communicate with your readers.
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### Post Banner & Thumbnail
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Thanks to [atika ](https://github.com/atika ), you can now [add thumbnails or banners ](https://github.com/ppoffice/hexo-theme-icarus/wiki/Theme#thumbnail ) to every post to create better reading experience.
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### Responsive Layout
Icarus knows on what screen size you are browsering the website, and reorganize the layout to fit your device.
### Custom Categories & Tags Pages
Get your categories and tags listed in single pages to make your blog more methodic.
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### lightgallery
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Icarus uses [lightgallery.js ](https://sachinchoolur.github.io/lightgallery.js/ ) to showcase your photos. Just enable it in your configuration, and that's all!
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### Sidebar
Icarus provides 6 built-in widgets:
- recent_posts
- category
- archives
- tag
- tagcloud
- links
All of them are enabled by default. You can edit them in `widget` setting.
