jekyll-theme-jsblog

Minimal, responsive theme used jekyll.

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Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "jekyll-theme-jsblog"

And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: jekyll-theme-jsblog

And then execute:

bundle

Or install it yourself as:

gem install jekyll-theme-jsblog

Quick Start

  1. Generate a new Jekyll blog:

    jekyll new blog --skip-bundle
cd blog

  2. Edit Gemfile to use the theme:

    gem "jekyll-theme-jsblog"

  3. Edit _config.yml to use the theme and its plugins:

    theme: jekyll-theme-jsblog
plugins:
  - jekyll-paginate
  - jekyll-sitemap

permalink: /:year/:month/:day/:title/
paginate_path: /posts/:num/
paginate: 5

  4. Copy
    index.html,
    about.md,
    archives.md,
    feed.xml, and
    _data/navigation.yml
    from the theme:

    rm index.md
curl -L -O "https://github.com/justjs/jekyll-theme-jsblog/raw/master/{index.html,about.md,archives.md,feed.xml}"
curl -L --create-dirs -o _data/navigation.yml https://github.com/justjs/jekyll-theme-jsblog/raw/master/_data/navigation.yml

  5. Install gems and you're good to go! The blog will be available on
    http://127.0.0.1:4000.

    bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

Deployment to GitHub Pages using Travis CI

This theme uses jekyll-archives gem
which is not supported by GitHub Pages.
If you want to use full features like categories and tags, I recommend you to
use Travis CI or other CI services.

To deploy using Travis CI, first copy the .travis.yml of this
repository. You can change target-branch (gh-pages by default) and
on.branch (master by default) as you want. If you want further
customization, see Travis CI's documentation page.

You'll see there's github-token: $GITHUB_TOKEN, and this is what you should
configure. Go to your personal access tokens
page, and generate new token with public_repo or repo permission as you
need. Then go to Travis CI's settings page of your repository, and add a new
environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN with the value of the token you generated.

Usage

Customization

To override the default structure and style of this theme, 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/footer_content.html file to add
contents to footer, create an _includes directory, copy
_includes/footer_content.html from jekyll-theme-jsblog gem folder to
<your-site>/_includes and start editing that file.

For example, you can add favicons to _includes/head_custom.html:

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="{{ "/favicon.ico" | relative_url }}">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="{{ "/apple-touch-icon.png" | relative_url }}">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="{{ "/apple-touch-icon-76x76.png" | relative_url }}">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="{{ "/apple-touch-icon-120x120.png" | relative_url }}">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="{{ "/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png" | relative_url }}">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="{{ "/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png" | relative_url }}">

The site's default CSS is in 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 "theme-jsblog";, 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 jekyll-theme-jsblog gem
    • Go to your local jekyll-theme-jsblog gem installation directory (run bundle show jekyll-theme-jsblog 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

Locale

site.lang is used to declare the primary language for each web page within the
site.

lang: en-US sets the lang attribute for the site to the United States flavor
of English, while en-GB would be for the United Kingdom style of English.
Country codes are optional and the shorter variation lang: en is also
acceptable. You may want to write a post in different language, then add lang
attribute to the frontmatter of that post:

layout: post
title: "안녕하세요"
lang: ko

Description

site.description describes the site. This is mainly used in meta descriptions
for improving SEO. Also, you can set description attribute for each post:

layout: post
title: Awesome Post
description: This is an awesome post.

If you don't specify post.description, then post.excerpt will be used if it
exist.

External URL

external-url turns the title of your post to a link. Specify a URL which you
want to link to.

layout: post
title: Jekyll Theme
external-url: https://github.com/justjs/jekyll-theme-jsblog

Then the title of your post would look like a link with text
Jekyll Theme →. This also applies to your blog feed.

Category

Each post can have categories attribute. It can be a string or an array. This
will be displayed on index, archive and each post, and provide a link to the
archive of category.

layout: post
title: Awesome Post
categories: Misc

layout: post
title: Another Awesome Post
categories:
  - Misc
  - Idea

Tag

Each post can have tags attribute. It can be a string or an array. This will
be displayed on index, archive and each post, and provide a link to the archive
of tag.

layout: post
title: Awesome Post
tags: food

layout: post
title: Another Awesome Post
tags:
  - food
  - trip

Feed

Create <your-site>/feed.xml with:

---
layout: feed
---

If you want to use another path for feed, you can specify a non-default path via
your site's config.

feed:
  path: atom.xml

Then create <your-site>/atom.xml with the same content of feed.xml above.

Comments

This theme provides the ability to include your favourite commenting service, like Disqus or Isso.

To enable comments on pages and posts:

  1. Overwrite the _includes/custom_comments_provider.html with your custom provider of comments.
  2. Add comments: true to your _config.yml.

To disable comments on certain pages or posts specify comments: false in the front matter of the page or post.

Metadata for SEO

Keywords

Each post can have keywords attribute. This is a comma-separated list which is
used in meta descriptions for improving SEO.

layout: post
title: How to configure jekyll-theme-jsblog
keywords: jekyll, js, github pages

YAML list is also available:

keywords:
  - jekyll
  - js
  - github pages

Twitter

  • site.twitter_username sets twitter:site and twitter:creator meta tag
  • site.twitter_image sets twitter:image:src meta tag
  • page.twitter_card.type sets twitter:card meta tag (default: summary)
    • If page.twitter_card.type is gallery, it sets twitter:image0, twitter:image1, twitter:image2 and twitter:image3 meta tags with page.twitter_card.image, page.twitter_card.image1, page.twitter_card.image2 and page.twitter_card.image3, respectively
    • If page.twitter_card.type is photo, page.twitter_card.width sets twitter:image:width meta tag and page.twitter_card.height sets twitter:image:height meta tag
  • page.twitter_card.creator sets twitter:creator meta tag. It overrides site.twitter_username
  • page.twitter_card.image sets twitter:image:src meta tag if page.twitter_card.type is not gallery. It overrides site.twitter_image

Facebook

  • site.facebook_app_id sets fb:admins meta tag
  • site.facebook_page sets article:author meta tag
  • site.facebook_image sets og:image meta tag
  • page.facebook.image sets og:image meta tag. It overrides site.facebook_image

To define header links, add titles and URLs under the main key in
_data/navigation.yml:

main:
  - title: "About"
    url: /about/
  - title: "GitHub"
    url: https://github.com/justjs/jekyll-theme-jsblog

Enabling Google Analytics

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

google_analytics: UA-NNNNNNNN-N

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