Mythos Theme for Micro.blog offers extensive color customization through CSS custom properties (variables). This guide will show you how to modify colors using Micro.blog’s Custom CSS feature, ensuring your blog reflects your personal style while maintaining the theme’s clean, readable design.
Microhooks Are Here
Mythos now supports microhooks, a customization system that lets you add content to specific spots throughout your theme without worrying about losing changes when updates come out.
The idea is simple: create a template file in your custom theme with a specific name, and Mythos will automatically include it in the right place. Want a newsletter signup after every post? Create microhook-after-post-content.html. Need a site-wide announcement? Use microhook-after-header.html.
It’s the same system I built for my Tiny and Sumo themes, and it’s proven to be really useful for people who want to customize without getting into the weeds of theme development.
The microhooks are completely optional and non-destructive. If something doesn’t work the way you want, just delete the file and you’re back to normal.
I’ve added 10 different microhook points throughout Mythos, covering everything from individual posts to home page customization to replacing the entire CSS if you’re feeling ambitious.
You can read more about it in the microhook documentation.
Mythos Theme Now Available
I’m excited to announce the release of Mythos, a clean and fast theme designed specifically for Micro.blog. After weeks of development and testing, it’s now available in the Micro.blog plugin directory.
What is Mythos?
Mythos is built around a simple philosophy: your writing should be the star. The theme uses clean black text on a white background with carefully chosen typography that makes reading a pleasure on any device. No fancy animations, no cluttered sidebars, no distractions—just your words presented beautifully. (And yes, there is an elegant dark mode as well.)
Photo Collection
Micro.blog allows you to create collections (or albums) of photos for display throughout your site. Mythos handles those collections with ease to display them beautifully on all devices.
Post With a Title
This is a traditional blog post with a title. It does not have content length restraints. By default, the full content of a post will be shown throughout the blog unless you add a read more tag.
If you prefer to use summaries with these posts, you can enable that in the Theme Settings. Once enabled, you can add your summary directly in the Micro.blog post editor (click the three dots in the upper right hand corner). If you do not add a summary or a read more tag to posts, Mythos Theme will automatically truncate your posts at the 150 word mark (approximately) if you have summaries enabled.
This is a micro post that breaks the soft limit of 300 characters. Despite being longer, it is still treated as a micropost and will avoid being truncated. The identifying mark on a micro post is the lack of a title.
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This is a micro post (less than 300 characters) with no title. Posts of this type will never be truncated.