A minimal portfolio and blog theme for Kirby CMS. Built for Kirby 5 + PHP 8.2+.
Index is built for easy updates, not elaborate structure. No menu, no case studies, no complex navigation – because in my experience, that's where people get stuck and stop updating their portfolios.
List your work. Write when you want. That's it. The templates are simple to extend if you need more later.
Built-in RSS feed for your blog. Let readers subscribe and follow your writing without any extra setup.
Automatic XML sitemap generation for search engines. Better indexing out of the box.
Tiny CSS footprint. Fast loading, easy to understand, simple to modify. No preprocessors, no frameworks, no complexity.
Pick your primary and accent color. That's it. The constraint keeps your site cohesive and makes customization trivial. Change two variables, done.
Ships with Geist by Vercel — Geist Mono as the main display font, Geist Sans for body text. Both are licensed under the SIL Open Font License and load fast. Swap them out by overriding the --font-primary (headings, index pages), --font-secondary (body copy) and --font-mono (code) CSS variables.
Choose between an index-style listing grouped by year, or a continuous feed that shows full posts in chronological order. Toggle between them from the Panel.
Essential SEO handled for you. Page titles, meta descriptions, breadcrumbs for navigation context. The basics done right.
No npm, no build process, no compilation step. Edit templates, refresh browser. That's it. Perfect for quick tweaks and easy deployment.
Drop a header-extra.php snippet into site/snippets/ to inject project-specific <head> content — OG images, analytics, custom meta tags — without touching the theme.
There are two ways in — pick the one that fits you:
Grab index-kit.zip from the releases page.
It's a complete, ready-to-run site: Kirby, the theme, and starter content — already wired together.
- Download and unzip it — into your web server's folder, or anywhere for local testing.
- No web server? Open a terminal in the folder and run
php -S localhost:8000 kirby/router.php, then visithttp://localhost:8000. - Open
/panelin the browser and create your account. Done — start writing.
Requirements: PHP 8.2+ (8.3+ recommended). Kirby is free to try locally; production needs a Kirby license.
Prefer Composer? composer create-project isn't offered — but the next option is just as quick.
composer require eddiedale/index-themeOr download the theme ZIP from the releases page
and place it in site/plugins/index-theme, or add it as a git submodule:
git submodule add https://github.com/eddiedale/index-theme.git site/plugins/index-themeComing from Plainkit? Delete its stub files first — they silently override the theme's versions:
rm site/blueprints/site.yml site/blueprints/pages/default.yml site/templates/default.php
Navigate to /panel in your browser, create your admin account, and start
editing your content from the Panel.
The theme registers a few options you can set in site/config/config.php:
Pages to exclude from the sitemap. Defaults to ['error'].
return [
'sitemap.ignore' => ['error', 'drafts'],
];Kirby always checks site/templates/, site/snippets/, and site/blueprints/ before the plugin. To override anything from the theme without modifying it, place a file with the same name in the corresponding site/ folder.
For example, to customise the header, create site/snippets/header.php and Kirby will use that instead of the theme's version.
To inject content into <head> — analytics, OG image tags, custom meta — without touching the header template, create site/snippets/header-extra.php. The theme will automatically include it.
Kirby is a file-based CMS for PHP. If you're new to it, the docs and forum are the best places to start.
The theme is free and open source under the MIT License. Use it, modify it, ship it — just keep the license and copyright notice.
Kirby CMS is a separate commercial product. It's free to use locally for development, but requires a paid license for production. Purchase one at getkirby.com/buy.