A Next.js 15 Blog using Server Components - Backed by Wisp CMS

Featured Links

• Demo Blog
• Feature Walkthrough
• Editing Experience
• Documentation
• Video Tutorial

This is a Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn blogging starter template. This version is using Next.js 15 App Router with React Server Components and uses Wisp for publishing blog posts.

Probably the most feature-rich Next.js blog template out there that is easily configurable and customizable. It's perfect as an upgrade from blogs using Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Contentlayer, or ContentCollections.

About Wisp

Wisp is a modern CMS for adding blogs to websites. It features an intuitive, medium-like editorial experience so that you can focus on writing instead of getting distracted by markdown.

Features

• Beautiful blog starter kit with server rendering using Next.js 15 Server Components
• Responsive layout for mobile devices
• Filter blog posts by tags
• About page
• Light & dark mode
• Automatic hierarchical sitemap generation
• Automatic Open Graph image generation
• Automatic Related Posts suggestions
• RSS Feed

Technologies

• Next.js 15 using App Router & TypeScript
• Wisp to manage blog posts
• Tailwind CSS for CSS framework
• Shadcn UI for UI components
• ESLint for static analysis
• TypeScript for type safety
• Font optimization with next/font

Step-by-step Video Tutorial

We've now included a 3-part video tutorial to help you run this blog on your computer:

• Part 1: Running the Next JS blog (15 min)
• Part 2: Personalizing Your Next.js Blog (15 min)
• Part 3: Deploying Your Next.js Blog (15 min)

Quick Start Guide

First, install the dependencies:

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npm i --legacy-peer-deps

IMPORTANT: There's a dependency (next-themes) that's not upgraded to React 19 so you will need to add the --legacy-peer-deps into the install command. Make sure that Vercel's install command is set to use npm i --legacy-peer-deps too!

Then, copy the .env.example file to .env:

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cp .env.example .env

Note: You will need to populate the NEXT_PUBLIC_BLOG_ID variable with the Blog ID obtained from wisp after you've created an account.

Finally, run the development server:

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npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

Getting Help

Full documentation on how to get started on wisp as well as this starter kit is available on wisp's documentation site

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