doccoli-jekyll

The doccoli-jekyll is the Jekyll theme in use for documentation at Bubblin Superbooks. This theme is particularly useful for solo founders (developers) or small bootstrapped teams with very limited time and resources.

Tack a responsive “blog-like” implementation of SEO-optimized documentation onto your website; it will sit on a url like so, right next to your actual product or website:

https://example.com/docs/

A tutorial on how to set up documentation using the doccoli-jekyll theme alongside a rails app is available here.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site’s Gemfile:

gem "doccoli-jekyll"

And add this line to your Jekyll site (_config.yml) and set search: true:

theme: doccoli-jekyll

search: true

And then execute:

$ bundle

Customization

To override the default structure and style of doccoli-jekyll, simply create the concerned directory at the root of your site, copy the file you wish to customize to that directory, and then edit the file.
e.g., to override the _includes/head.html file to specify a custom style path, create an _includes directory, copy _includes/head.html from minima gem folder to <yoursite>/_includes and start editing that file.

The site’s default CSS has now moved to a new place within the gem itself, assets/main.scss. To override the default CSS, the file has to exist at your site source. Do either of the following:

• Create a new instance of main.scss at site source.
  • Create a new file main.scss at <your-site>/assets/
  • Add the frontmatter dashes, and
  • Add @import "doccoli-jekyll";, to <your-site>/assets/main.scss
  • Add your custom CSS.
• Download the file from this repo
  • Create a new file main.scss at <your-site>/assets/
  • Copy the contents at assets/main.scss onto the main.scss you just created, and edit away!
• Copy directly from doccoli-jekyll gem
  • Go to your local doccoli-jekyll gem installation directory ( run bundle show doccoli-jekyll to get the path to it ).
  • Copy the assets/ folder from there into the root of <your-site>
  • Change whatever values you want, inside <your-site>/assets/main.scss

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Change default date format

You can change the default date format by specifying site.doccoli-jekyll.date_format
in _config.yml.

# doccoli-jekyll date format
# Refer to http://shopify.github.io/liquid/filters/date/ to customize
doccoli-jekyll:
  date_format: "%b %-d, %Y"

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Enabling comments (via Disqus)

Optionally, if you have a Disqus account, you can tell Jekyll to use it to show a comments section below each post.

To enable it, add the following lines to your Jekyll site:

  disqus:
    shortname: my_disqus_shortname

You can find out more about Disqus’ shortnames here.

Comments are enabled by default and will only appear in production, i.e., JEKYLL_ENV=production

If you don’t want to display comments for a particular post you can disable them by adding comments: false to that post’s YAML Front Matter.

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Enabling Google Analytics

To enable Google Anaytics, add the following lines to your Jekyll site:

  google_analytics: UA-NNNNNNNN-N

Google Analytics will only appear in production, i.e., JEKYLL_ENV=production

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Enabling Heap Analytics

To enable Heap Anaytics, add the following lines to your Jekyll site:

  heap_analytics: NN-NNNNNNNNN

Heap will appear only in production, i.e., with JEKYLL_ENV=production

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Internal pages

To add internal pages inside your documentation that don’t appear on the sidebar directly create a _pages directory as sibling to _posts. Then add the following to your _config.yml

include: ['_pages']

collections:
  pages:
    output: true
    permalink: /:path

Any .markdown file inside _pages directory will be available as HTML over the desired permalink. Yay!