The Cayman theme

Cayman is a clean, responsive theme for GitHub Pages.

Usage

To use the Cayman theme:

Add the following to your site’s _config.yml:

theme: jekyll-theme-cayman

Optionally, if you’d like to preview your site on your computer, add the following to your site’s Gemfile:

gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins

Customizing

Configuration variables

Cayman will respect the following variables, if set in your site’s _config.yml:

title: [The title of your site]
description: [A short description of your site's purpose]

Additionally, you may choose to set the following optional variables:

show_downloads: ["true" or "false" to indicate whether to provide a download URL]
google_analytics: [Your Google Analytics tracking ID]

Stylesheet

If you’d like to add your own custom styles:

1. Create a file called /assets/css/style.scss in your site
2. Add the following content to the top of the file, exactly as shown:

---
---

@import "{{ site.theme }}";

1. Add any custom CSS (or Sass, including imports) you’d like immediately after the @import line

Note: If you’d like to change the theme’s Sass variables, you must set new values before the @import line in your stylesheet.

Layouts

If you’d like to change the theme’s HTML layout:

1. Copy the original template from the theme’s repository
   (Pro-tip: click “raw” to make copying easier)
2. Create a file called /_layouts/default.html in your site
3. Paste the default layout content copied in the first step
4. Customize the layout as you’d like

Overriding GitHub-generated URLs

Templates often rely on URLs supplied by GitHub such as links to your repository or links to download your project. If you’d like to override one or more default URLs:

1. Look at the template source to determine the name of the variable. It will be in the form of {{ site.github.zip_url }}.
2. Specify the URL that you’d like the template to use in your site’s _config.yml. For example, if the variable was site.github.url, you’d add the following:

github:
  zip_url: http://example.com/download.zip
  another_url: another value

1. When your site is built, Jekyll will use the URL you specified, rather than the default one provided by GitHub.

Note: You must remove the site. prefix, and each variable name (after the github.) should be indent with two space below github:.