A dark and light theme for Jekyll, inspired by Dash UI for Atom. 🌒☀
This theme for Jekyll has been inspired by dash-ui, a dark theme for Atom.
Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile
:
gem "jekyll-dash"
And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml
:
theme: jekyll-dash
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install jekyll-dash
Add the following configuration to your site. Customise it to your needs!
# required by disqus to display comments
url: https://your-site-url
# jekyll-paginate
paginate: 5
paginate_path: "/blog/page:num/"
# jekyll-tagging (optional)
tag_permalink_style: pretty
tag_page_layout: tag_page
tag_page_dir: tag
dash:
date_format: "%b %-d, %Y"
disqus:
shortname: <your-discuss-shortname>
# generate social links in footer
# supported colors: green, red, orange, blue, cyan, pink, teal, yellow, indigo, purple
social_links:
- url: https://twitter.com/bitbrain_
icon: twitter-square
color: cyan
- url: https://bitbrain.itch.io
icon: itch-io
color: red
- url: https://github.com/bitbrain
icon: github-square
color: purple
Please keep in mind that Github Pages does only support a limited list of Jekyll plugins. You will be able to use this theme on Github Pages but some functionality might not be available, for example displaying tags. In order to use this theme to a full extend, you have to generate the _site
externally, for example on TravisCI.
For example, you want to host your own blog on https://<username>.github.io
. As a result, you require the following repositories:
blog
- contains the actual Jekyll sources (see example)<username>.github.io
- contains generated webpage, pushed automatically via TravisCI (see example)
You are not required to do this, but keep in mind that some functionality might not be available when using the Jekyll generator on Github directly!
Tagging add the jekyll/tagging
plugin to your _config.yml
file to enable tagging. Do not forget to also add the following to your Gemfile
:
gem "jekyll-tagging"
Gravatar if you want to display your gravatar picture, add the liquid-md5
to your _config.yml
file. Do not forget to also add the following to your Gemfile
:
gem "liquid-md5"
I have configured posts but no posts are showing?
Solution: You most probably forgot to configure jekyll-paginate in your _config.yml! Make sure you have the correct configuration as described above!
I have added the correct configuration for
jekyll-paginate
but it is now complaining about a missingindex.html
file. What do I do?
Solution pagination only works with HTML files! Markdown is not supported there. Simply rename your index.md
into index.html
- that should do the trick!
I have configured Disqus via _config.yml but Disqus fails to load on the page?
Solution: Make sure you configure the correct url
within your _config.yml
. Also make sure that your domain is trusted by Disqus. This can be configured within Disqus by adding a trusted domain.
I am using this theme but I don't see any tags?
Solution: as described above you have to add the tagging plugin. Additionally, tags do not work natively by Github Pages. You have to build your site on an external CI and push the _site
artifacts to a hosting repository.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/bitbrain/jekyll-dash. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install
.
Your theme is setup just like a normal Jekyll site! To test your theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve
and open your browser at http://localhost:4000
. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.
When your theme is released, only the files in _layouts
, _includes
, _sass
and assets
tracked with Git will be bundled.
To add a custom directory to your theme-gem, please edit the regexp in jekyll-dash.gemspec
accordingly.
The theme is available as open source under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.