NEOS Blogger Theme: Elegant, Clean, and SEO Blogger Template

The NEOS Blogger Theme is a modern, feature-rich, and highly customizable Blogger template designed to offer both aesthetic appeal and optimal performance. Developed with user-friendliness in mind, it allows for extensive customization without requiring coding knowledge.

Key Features

• Elegant and Responsive Design
  Clean layout with support for both light and dark modes.
  
• Flexible Post Widgets
  Offers two styles—Big Thumbnail and Small Thumbnail—with slider options for various post widgets like Popular Posts, Recent Posts, and more.
  
• Enhanced Contact Options
  Includes an overlay-style WhatsApp contact feature with subject options and a formatted contact message system.
  
• Auto Table of Contents
  Automatically generates a table of contents for your posts, improving navigation and SEO.
  
• Dual Pagination Modes
  Choose between default and numbered pagination styles.
  
• Comment System Support
  Compatible with both Blogger and Disqus comment systems.
  
• Advanced Formatting
  Supports features like full-screen post covers and interactive tooltips.
  

Performance and Customization

• User-Friendly Interface
  The NEOS Theme is designed with a strong focus on performance and ease of use. Around 99% of the configuration can be done directly through the Layout Interface on the Blogger dashboard. This includes adding, removing, or configuring widgets. This theme is ideal for users who are not very familiar with coding. It allows you to customize various elements without needing to interact with Blogger’s XML code at all.
  
  
  The NEOS Theme allows you to customize a wide range of elements to suit your needs. It offers extensive configuration options, including feature-specific settings and individual widget customizations.
  
  
  
• Clear Documentation
  Complete information regarding the use and customization of the NEOS Theme is clearly provided in the documentation blog. This includes everything from the installation process to various details about the theme system. You can access the documentation blog at: https://neos-doc-en.wiblogger.com
  
  
  
• Pure Script
  The core code of the NEOS Theme is built entirely using pure/native scripts (JavaScript and CSS). We deliberately avoid the use of third-party libraries (such as jQuery), which in many cases can negatively impact page performance. The XML structure of the NEOS Theme is also neatly organized and well-structured.
  
  
  
• Lazy Load for Media
  Lazy Load Media is a feature related to how media content (images, videos, and iframes) will loaded. By default, browsers load all media as soon as the page is opened. With this feature, the browser only loads media when it becomes visible on the screen (within the viewport). This system optimizes page loading speed by deferring the loading of media that isn't yet needed.
  
  This lazy load system isn't limited to media in widgets (such as thumbnail images), but is also applied to media within posts and static pages. Lazy load system is implemented by automatically adding the loading="lazy" attribute. This attribute is a native HTML attribute, ensuring that media remains indexable by search engines as usual.
  
  
• Lazy Load for Assets
  Lazy Load Assets is a feature related to the loading system of various external assets. These external assets include resources such as Font Awesome and Google AdSense ads. Under normal circumstances, loading these assets can negatively affect your Page Speed Insights score. By implementing lazy load for these assets, many of the issues flagged by Page Speed Insights can be resolved, resulting in better performance.
  
  
• Auto Resize Image
  Auto Resize Image is a feature related to determining the optimal image size to be loaded. This system adjusts the intrinsic size of an image to match its rendered size on the screen. As a result, pages load faster compared with the browsers are forced to load the original image size, which may not align with its displayed dimensions.
  
  The intrinsic image dimensions are adapted based on the device's ratio, ensuring that the images appear sharp and not blurry. This system is not limited to thumbnail images in widgets, but is also applied to images within posts and pages.
  
  
• Fast Loading
  The load system mentions above makes this NEOS Theme speed very well.
  
  
  
• Updater Tool
  Updater Tool is an online software we provide specially for updating the NEOS theme. This tool allows users to update the theme to the latest version without having to perform the installation and configuration procedures from scratch. With this tool, you can update theme just with a few clicks.
  
  
  
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Supported Widgets

This widget support information is based on the type of content displayed. Some of them also support for various styles - (See: List of Widgets)

1. Ad
   AdSense Ads
   
2. Blog Name
   Blog Name and Logo
   
3. Nav Expanded
   Visible navigation menu
   
4. Nav Button
   Button on the navigation menu
   
5. Nav Search
   Search box
   
6. Nav Collapsible
   Navigation menu that can be expanded or collapsed
   
7. Featured Post
   Specific desired post
   
8. Blog Posts
   Blog posts
   
9. Popular Posts
   Popular posts
   
10. Recent Posts
    Latest posts
    
11. Posts By Label
    Posts based on certain labels
    
12. Related Posts
    Related posts
    
13. Custom Posts
    Displaying desired posts
    
14. Related Labels
    Related labels on posts
    
15. Comments
    Blogger and Disqus comments
    
16. Footer About
    About the blog in the footer
    
17. HTML
    Custom HTML
    
18. Welcome Message
    Full-screen message at the top of the blog
    

Supported Formattings

Formatting is a ready-to-use HTML format for creating various attractive elements within posts, pages, or other supported places. The various formatting options available in the NEOS theme will greatly help you present your post content more appealingly - (See: List of Formattings).

1. Button
2. Blockquote
3. Details
4. Heading
5. Image
6. Indent
7. List
8. Manual ToC
9. Mark
10. Message
11. Post Cover (new at v3.0.0)
12. Tab
13. Tabel
14. Tooltips (new at v2.7.0)
15. Video
16. Syntax Highlighter

Special Ad Placements

In addition to the Ad widget, there are 3 special placements for displaying ads.

1. Top Of Post
2. In Post
3. Bottom Of Post

Theme limitations

1. For the current version (v3.1.1), the deafult ad winget only support for AdSense. Both Ad widgets and 3 special ad placements only support AdSense ad code.
2. Side on rail type AdSense ads are not yet supported – Learn more
3. RTL (Right-to-Left) language support is not yet available.
4. By default, there are 2 language options in the NEOS theme XML file: Bahasa Indonesia and English. However, all theme texts can be customized through their respective configurations. For those of you who want to install the NEOS theme on a blog with content languages other than Bahasa Indonesia and English, you need to manually adjust (translate) each text at respective configurations. It is also important to note that the NEOS theme only uses one font, namely the Poppins font from Google. Therefore, this theme only supports Latin and Devanagari characters - (see: NEOS supported languages)