Overview

Theme configuration is used to customize various features of the theme and control its behavior. You can configure it in either .vuepress/config.ts or .vuepress/plume.config.ts.

When a field description includes the following statement, it indicates that the field is not supported for configuration in .vuepress/plume.config.ts:

This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

For fields without the above declaration, you can configure them in either .vuepress/config.ts or .vuepress/plume.config.ts. It is generally recommended to configure them in .vuepress/plume.config.ts.

Avoid reconfiguring a field that has already been configured in one configuration file within another configuration file.

.vuepress/config.ts

import { 
defineUserConfig
 } from 'vuepress'
import { 
plumeTheme
 } from 'vuepress-theme-plume'

export default 
defineUserConfig
({
  
theme
: 
plumeTheme
({
    // Theme configuration
  })
})

.vuepress/plume.config.ts

import { 
defineThemeConfig
 } from 'vuepress-theme-plume'

export default 
defineThemeConfig
({
  // Theme configuration
})

Basic Configuration

configFile

• Type: string

• Default: ''

• Details:

  Custom path to the theme configuration file.

  Refer to Theme Config File plume.config.ts for more information.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

plugins

• Type: ThemeBuiltinPlugins

• Default: {}

• Details:

  Custom configuration for plugins used internally by the theme.

  The plugins used by the theme are configured by default. In most cases, modification is not required. For detailed customization, please refer to this documentation.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

encrypt

• Type: EncryptOptions ({ global?: boolean; admin?: string | string[]; rules?: Record<string, string | string[]> })

• Default: undefined

• Details:

  Site encryption configuration, supporting full-site encryption and article-level encryption.

  When not configured, no encryption is enabled. When global is true, the whole site is encrypted; admin is the super-permission password; rules specifies article passwords keyed by the file relative path, page access path, or directory path, and when a key starts with ^, it is matched as a regular expression.

  This field supports configuration and hot reload in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

markdown 1.0.0-rc.136 +

• Type: MarkdownOptions

• Default: {}

• Details:

  Markdown feature configuration. Refer to this documentation.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

codeHighlighter 1.0.0-rc.136 +

• Type: false | (ShikiPluginOptions & { renderIndentGuides?: boolean | object; colorizedBrackets?: boolean | object })

• Default: {}

• Details:

  Code highlighting configuration. Refer to this documentation.

  In addition to the options of @vuepress/plugin-shiki, it also supports two theme-extension options: renderIndentGuides (indent guides) and colorizedBrackets (colorized brackets).

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

components

• Type: MarkdownPowerPluginOptions['components']

• Default: undefined

• Details:

  Automatic component import configuration. The theme uses unplugin-vue-components to implement automatic component import, inheriting all of its configuration options (except include and exclude).

  .vuepress/plume.config.ts

  import path from 'node:path'
  import { defineThemeConfig } from 'vuepress-theme-plume'
  
  export default defineThemeConfig({
    components: {
      dirs: [path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, 'components')],
    },
  })

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

search 1.0.0-rc.136 +

• Type: boolean | SearchOptions

• Default: { provider: 'local' }

• Details:

  Search configuration. Refer to this documentation.

  true is equivalent to { provider: 'local' }; false disables search.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

comment 1.0.0-rc.136 +

• Type: false | CommentPluginOptions

• Default: false

• Details:

  Comment configuration. Refer to this documentation.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

watermark 1.0.0-rc.136 +

• Type: boolean | (WatermarkPluginOptions & { fullPage?: boolean })

• Default: false

• Details:

  Watermark configuration. Refer to this documentation.

  In addition to the options of @vuepress/plugin-watermark, the theme additionally supports fullPage (default true): when true, the watermark covers the entire page; when false, it only covers the article content area.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

readingTime 1.0.0-rc.136 +

• Type: false | ReadingTimePluginOptions

• Default: false

• Details:

  Reading time configuration. Refer to this documentation.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

copyCode 1.0.0-rc.136 +

• Type: false | CopyCodePluginOptions

• Default: {}

• Details:

  Copy code configuration. Refer to this documentation.

  Enabled by default

  This feature is on by default and works without any configuration (the source checks copyCode !== false). Configure it only to customise behaviour, or set it to false to disable it entirely.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

replaceAssets 1.0.0-rc.139 +

• Type: false | ReplaceAssetsPluginOptions

• Default: false

• Details:

  Replace assets configuration. Refer to this documentation.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

llmstxt

• Type: boolean | LlmsPluginOptions

• Default: false

• Details:

  Whether to generate llms.txt and llms-full.txt to provide site content to large language models. This feature only takes effect during a production build (vuepress build).

  Refer to this documentation.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

hostname

• Type: string

• Default: ''

• Details:

  Deployment site domain name.

  When hostname is configured to a valid domain, the theme will generate sitemap and SEO-related content.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

autoFrontmatter

• Type: false | AutoFrontmatterOptions

• Default: Enabled by default, equivalent to { title: true, createTime: true, permalink: true }

• Details:

  Whether to automatically add frontmatter configuration to markdown files. The feature is disabled only when it is explicitly set to false.

  interface AutoFrontmatterOptions {
    /**
     * Whether to automatically generate permalink
     *
     * @default true
     * - true: auto generate permalink
     * - false: do not generate permalink
     * - 'filepath': generate permalink based on file path
     */
    permalink?: boolean | 'filepath'
  
    /**
     * Whether to automatically generate createTime
     *
     * Reads file creation time by default. `createTime` is more precise (to the second) than the default VuePress `date` field.
     */
    createTime?: boolean
  
    /**
     * Whether to automatically generate title
     *
     * Uses the filename as the title by default.
     */
    title?: boolean
  }

cache

• Type: false | 'memory' | 'filesystem'

• Default: filesystem

• Details:

  Whether to enable compilation cache, or configure the caching method.

  This configuration item addresses the slow startup speed of VuePress. It caches the compilation results during the first service start. On subsequent starts, it reads the cache directly, skipping compilation to speed up startup.

  • false: Disable cache.
  • 'memory': Use memory cache. This method provides faster startup speed but increases memory usage as the number of project files grows. Suitable for projects with fewer articles.
  • 'filesystem': Use filesystem cache. This method provides a relatively fast and stable startup speed, more suitable for projects with substantial content.

  Warning

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

  For the cache to take effect, you should remove the --clean-cache parameter from the vuepress dev development server startup script in your package.json.

docsRepo

• Type: string
• Default: ''
• Details: Documentation repository configuration, used to generate the Edit this page link.

docsBranch

• Type: string
• Default: ''
• Details: Documentation repository branch configuration, used to generate the Edit this page link.

docsDir

• Type: string
• Default: ''
• Details: Documentation repository directory configuration, used to generate the Edit this page link.

editLink

• Type: boolean

• Default: true

• Details: Whether to enable the edit link.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

lastUpdated

• Type: false | LastUpdatedOptions
• Default: { formatOptions: { dateStyle: 'short', timeStyle: 'short' } }
• Details: Last updated time.

interface LastUpdatedOptions {

  /**
   * Options to set the format of the last updated time.
   * @see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/DateTimeFormat#using_options
   *
   * @default
   * { dateStyle: 'short', timeStyle: 'short' }
   */
  formatOptions?: Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions & { forceLocale?: boolean }
}

This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

contributors

• Type: boolean | (ContributorsOptions & { mode?: 'inline' | 'block' })

• Default: true

• Details: Whether to display contributors.

  When passing an object, you can use the ContributorsOptions of @vuepress/plugin-git, as well as the theme extension mode?: 'inline' | 'block' (the display mode of contributors).

  For more configuration, please refer to this documentation.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

changelog

• Type: boolean | ChangelogOptions

• Default: false

• Details: Whether to display page change history.

  For more configuration, please refer to this documentation.

  This field is not supported for configuration in the Theme Config File plume.config.ts.

locales

• Type: Record<string, ThemeLocaleData>

• Default: {}

• Details: Multi-language configuration.

  Text configuration for different languages. Refer to this documentation.

  The multi-language configuration supports all configuration options under the following Locale to control theme behavior in different languages.

Locale Configuration

All the following fields are also basic configuration fields and can be configured at the same level as fields like locales.

home

• Type: false | string
• Default: /
• Details: The path to the home page. It will be used for:
  • The logo link in the navbar;
  • The Back to Home link on the 404 page;

logo

• Type: false | string
• Default: false
• Details: Logo in the navbar.

logoDark

• Type: false | string
• Default: false
• Details: Logo in the navbar for Dark mode.

appearance

• Type: boolean | 'dark' | 'force-dark'
• Default: true

Whether to enable dark mode.

• If this option is set to true, the default theme will be determined by the user's preferred color scheme.
• If this option is set to dark, the theme will be dark by default unless the user manually toggles it.
• If this option is set to false, the user will not be able to switch themes.
• If this option is set to force-dark, the user will not be able to switch themes, and the theme will be forced to dark.

This option injects an inline script that restores user settings from local storage. This ensures [data-theme="dark"] is applied before the page is rendered to avoid flashing.

profile

• Type: ProfileOptions
• Default: undefined

Configure the blogger's profile, displayed in the right sidebar of the blog.

.vuepress/plume.config.ts

import { defineThemeConfig } from 'vuepress-theme-plume'

export default defineThemeConfig({
  profile: {
    avatar: '/avatar.png',
    name: 'Your Name',
    description: 'Your description',
    circle: true,
    location: 'Hangzhou, China',
    organization: 'Your Company',
    layout: 'right',
  },
})

avatar

• Type: string
• Default: undefined

Avatar image link, supports local paths or network URLs.

name

• Type: string
• Default: undefined

Blogger name, displayed below the avatar.

description

• Type: string
• Default: undefined

Personal description or signature, displayed below the name.

circle

• Type: boolean
• Default: false

Whether to display the avatar with circular cropping.

location

• Type: string
• Default: undefined

Geographic location information, displayed in the profile.

organization

• Type: string
• Default: undefined

Organization or company information, displayed in the profile.

layout

• Type: 'left' | 'right'
• Default: 'right'

Layout position of the profile. 'right' displays in the right sidebar, 'left' displays in the left sidebar.

social

• Type: SocialLink[]
• Default: []

Configure social account links, displayed in the profile area. Supports 30+ built-in icons (e.g., github, twitter, discord, weibo, bilibili, zhihu, etc.), and also supports custom SVG icons.

.vuepress/plume.config.ts

import { defineThemeConfig } from 'vuepress-theme-plume'

export default defineThemeConfig({
  social: [
    { icon: 'github', link: 'https://github.com/your-username' },
    { icon: 'twitter', link: 'https://twitter.com/your-username' },
    { icon: 'weibo', link: 'https://weibo.com/your-username' },
    // Custom SVG icon
    { icon: { svg: '<svg>...</svg>', name: 'custom' }, link: 'https://example.com' },
  ],
})

icon

• Type: string | { svg: string, name?: string }
• Required

Social icon. Can be a built-in icon name (e.g., github, twitter, discord, facebook, instagram, linkedin, mastodon, npm, slack, youtube, qq, weibo, bilibili, gitlab, docker, juejin, zhihu, douban, steam, stackoverflow, xbox, tiktok, kuaishou, bytedance, xiaohongshu, bluesky, gmail, etc.), or a custom icon object containing svg and an optional name.

link

• Type: string
• Required

Social link URL.

ariaLabel

• Type: string
• Default: undefined

Accessibility label for screen readers. If not set, it will be automatically generated based on the icon name.

navbarSocialInclude

• Type: string[]
• Default: ['github', 'twitter', 'discord', 'facebook']

Controls which social links are also displayed in the navbar. Only social links configured in social whose icon is in this list will be displayed on the right side of the navbar.

.vuepress/plume.config.ts

import { defineThemeConfig } from 'vuepress-theme-plume'

export default defineThemeConfig({
  social: [
    { icon: 'github', link: 'https://github.com/your-username' },
    { icon: 'twitter', link: 'https://twitter.com/your-username' },
    { icon: 'weibo', link: 'https://weibo.com/your-username' },
  ],
  navbarSocialInclude: ['github', 'weibo'], // Only github and weibo are displayed in the navbar
})

navbar

• Type: NavItem[]

• Default: [] (but a runtime fallback applies, see below)

• Details: Navbar configuration.

  An empty navbar is not an empty navbar

  When navbar is empty, the theme injects a fallback with Home / Posts (or the first post collection) / Tags / Archives, derived from the current collection (see theme/src/node/config/resolveThemeData.ts). Pass an explicit array to fully override it.

  To configure navbar elements, you can set it to a navbar array, where each element is a string or a NavItem object.

  • A NavItem object should have a text field and a link field, with an optional activeMatch field.
  • A string represents a page file path or a page access path.

type NavItem = string | {
  text: string
  link: string

  /**
   * The page prefix for the current group.
   */
  prefix?: string
  /**
   * Navigation items under this group.
   */
  items?: NavItem[]
  /**
   * Supports iconify icons. Use the iconify name directly and it will be loaded automatically.
   *
   * @see https://icon-sets.iconify.design/
   */
  icon: string
  /**
   * Controls when the element is active.
   */
  activeMatch?: string
}

• Example 1:

  export default defineUserConfig({
    theme: plumeTheme({
      navbar: [
        // NavbarItem
        { text: 'Foo', link: '/foo/' },
        // NavbarGroup
        {
          text: 'Group',
          prefix: '/group/',
          items: ['foo/', 'bar/'],
        },
        // String - page file path
        '/bar', // The `.md` extension can be omitted directly.
      ],
    }),
  })

• Example 2:

  export default defineUserConfig({
    theme: plumeTheme({
      navbar: [
        // Nested Group - maximum depth is 2
        {
          text: 'Group',
          items: [
            {
              text: 'SubGroup',
              items: ['/group/sub/', '/group/sub/bar/'],
            },
          ],
        },
        // Control when the element is active
        {
          text: 'Group 2',
          items: [
            {
              text: 'Always active',
              link: '/',
              // This element will always be active
              activeMatch: '/',
            },
            {
              text: 'Active on /foo/',
              link: '/not-foo/',
              // This element is active when the current route path starts with /foo/
              // Supports regular expressions
              activeMatch: '^/foo/',
            },
          ],
        },
      ],
    }),
  })

collections

• Type: ThemeCollectionItem[]

• Default: []

• Details: Documentation collections configuration.

  Check Collections Guide

  Check Collections Configuration to learn more

sidebar

• Type: false | SidebarMulti

• Details:

  Sidebar configuration. The theme recommends configuring the sidebar in collections configuration.

  The key of the configuration object is the common access path prefix for the sidebar.

  For value:

  • 'auto' means automatically generate the sidebar based on the directory structure.
  • string represents the page file path corresponding to the sidebar.
  • SidebarItem represents a single sidebar item configuration.

type ThemeIcon = string | { svg: string }

type SidebarMulti = Record<
  string,
  | 'auto'
  | (string | SidebarItem)[]
  | { items: 'auto' | (string | SidebarItem)[], prefix?: string }
>
interface SidebarItem {
  /**
   * Sidebar text.
   */
  text?: string

  /**
   * Sidebar link.
   */
  link?: string

  /**
   * Sidebar icon.
   */
  icon?: ThemeIcon

  /**
   * Nested sidebar group.
   */
  items?: 'auto' | (string | SidebarItem)[]

  /**
   * If not specified, the group is not collapsible.
   * If `true`, the group is collapsible and collapsed by default.
   * If `false`, the group is collapsible but expanded by default.
   */
  collapsed?: boolean

  /**
   * Link prefix for the current group.
   */
  prefix?: string

  rel?: string
  target?: string
}

sidebarScrollbar

• Type: boolean

• Default: true

• Details: Whether to show the sidebar scrollbar.

  When set to false, only the scrollbar is hidden, but the scrolling behavior remains unchanged.

aside

• Type: boolean | 'left'

• Default: true

• Details:

  Whether to display the aside (right sidebar).

  • false disables the right aside.
  • true enables the right aside.
  • 'left' moves the right aside to the left side of the article content, to the right of the main sidebar.

  Each page can override this global configuration via frontmatter aside.

outline

• Type: false | number | [number, number] | 'deep'

• Default: [2, 3]

• Details:

  The heading levels to display.

  A single number means only display headings of that level.

  If a tuple is passed, the first number is the minimum level and the second is the maximum level.

  'deep' is the same as [2, 6], which displays all headings from <h2> to <h6>.

  When aside is disabled, outline is also disabled.

  Each page can override this global configuration via frontmatter outline.

transition

• Type: boolean | TransitionOptions
• Default: true

Whether to enable transition animations. Set to false to completely disable all transition animations. Pass an object to control each type of animation separately.

.vuepress/plume.config.ts

import { defineThemeConfig } from 'vuepress-theme-plume'

export default defineThemeConfig({
  transition: {
    page: true,
    postList: true,
    appearance: 'fade',
  },
})

page

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Whether to enable page transition animations.

postList

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Whether to enable blog post list transition animations.

appearance

• Type: boolean | 'fade' | 'circle-clip' | 'horizontal-clip' | 'vertical-clip' | 'skew-clip' | 'blinds-vertical' | 'blinds-horizontal' | 'soft-blur-fade' | 'diamond-reveal'
• Default: 'fade'

Transition animation for dark/light mode switching. Set it to false to disable only this animation without affecting page or postList.

Supports the following 9 animation effects:

• fade: Fade in/out (default)
• circle-clip: Circular clip
• horizontal-clip: Horizontal clip
• vertical-clip: Vertical clip
• skew-clip: Skew clip
• blinds-vertical: Vertical blinds
• blinds-horizontal: Horizontal blinds
• soft-blur-fade: Soft blur fade
• diamond-reveal: Diamond reveal

readAid

• Type: boolean | 'mask' | 'left' | 'right'
• Default: false
• Details: Whether to show reading guide lines (the guide lines help users visually focus on the area where the mouse is located)
  • false - Do not show
  • 'mask' - Show mask
  • 'left' - Show left guide line
  • 'right' - Show right guide line

footer

• Type: false | { message: string; copyright?: string }

• Default: { message: 'Powered by VuePress & vuepress-theme-plume' }

• Details: Footer configuration.

  The default is not "hidden"

  Even without configuring footer, the theme renders a default footer linking to the VuePress and theme websites (see the default above). To hide it completely, set it to false explicitly:

  theme: plumeTheme({
    footer: false
  })

bulletin

• Type: boolean | BulletinOptions

• Default: false

• Details: Bulletin board configuration.

  For details, please refer to Bulletin Board.

editLinkPattern

• Type: string

• Default: ''

• Details: Regular expression for the edit link.

  Example: ':repo/edit/:branch/:path'

externalLinkIcon

• Type: boolean
• Default: true
• Details: Whether to display an external link icon after external links.

copyright

• Type: boolean | CopyrightLicense | CopyrightOptions

• Default: false

• Details: Copyright configuration.

  For details, please refer to Copyright.

prevPage

• Type: boolean
• Default: true
• Details: Whether to show the previous page link.

nextPage

• Type: boolean
• Default: true
• Details: Whether to show the next page link.

createTime

• Type: boolean | 'only-posts'

• Default: true

• Details: Whether to display the creation time.

  • false - Do not display.
  • 'only-posts' - Only display on blog post list pages.
  • true - Display on all article pages.

Contributors

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Changelog

10/13/26, 3:56 PM

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• e4dae-docs: improve docs (#1071)on 10/13/26
• 60619-docs: improve docs (#1069)on 10/11/26
• 93a8c-chore: tweakon 10/2/26
• 1d04d-feat: add builtin auto-import-components (#932)on 9/9/26
• e2725-feat(theme): add read-aid support (#960)on 8/31/26
• 0daf2-docs: improve docs (#929)on 7/15/26
• a3d8e-feat(theme): add filepath permalink support for auto frontmatter, #815 (#822)on 1/19/26
• 95d34-refactor(theme): social icon support all iconify icons, close #781 (#790)on 12/12/25
• 1503a-feat(theme): optimize view transition (#725)on 10/15/25
• 38505-docs: update en docs (#708)on 10/9/25

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