wesbaker.com

Personal site built with Zola and the Apollo theme.

Setup

1. Clone the repository.
2. Initialize the theme submodule:

git submodule update --init --recursive

3. Install Zola.

If you use Homebrew:

brew install zola

4. Enable the repo's versioned Git hooks:

bin/setup-git-hooks

That hook runs zola check --skip-external-links before each commit so malformed front matter and broken internal links fail locally.

Codex setup script

If you are using Codex's Setup script field, use:

git submodule update --init --recursive
./bin/install-zola.sh
bin/setup-git-hooks

This ensures zola is available before running local checks/builds in the container.

Common Commands

zola serve                        # Start local dev server
zola build                        # Build the site into public/
zola check --skip-external-links  # Validate site content and internal links

GitHub Checks

GitHub Actions also runs zola check --skip-external-links on pull requests and pushes to main.