bitcoincore.org

This repository is the source code of the Bitcoin Core project website built with Jekyll.

Directory structure

_posts/<lang>/posts for blog articles.
_posts/<lang>/pages for static pages.
_posts/<lang>/releases for Bitcoin Core release notes

File names must be in the format Y-m-d-title.md, e.g. 2015-12-31-title.md. File names can be translated.

Translations

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

Front Matter notes

The following Front Matter is required for the multilingual setup in all files. The required fields are as follows:

name: group name for unique article. Each translation must share the same group name, e.g. october15-report
id: each article translation must have a unique ID. Use the language code + -name field. e.g. en-october15-report
permalink: the must include the language code, end a trailing slash, e.g. /en/2015/12/31/report/.
title: the translated title of the article
type: the content type (pages, posts, releases, meetings, etc.)
layout: the layout template (page, post, etc.)
lang: the language code (en, fr, etc.)

---
title: Short Title
name: short-title
layout: post
type: posts
lang: en
id: en-short-title
permalink: /en/2016/01/01/short-title
---

Building

This website is based on Jekyll. To build locally, install Ruby 3.1.2 using system packages, rvm, rbenv, or another method. Then clone this repository and change directory into it:

git clone https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org.git
cd bitcoincore.org

Install the bundle utility using the Ruby package manager, gem, and then use bundle to install the rest of the Ruby packages needed to build this site. Note, depending on your system configuration, you may need to run gem as the superuser by putting "sudo" followed by a space before the gem command. You shouldn't need to use sudo with the bundle command.

gem update --system
gem install bundler
bundle install

To preview the site (this will launch a tiny webserver on port 4000):

bundle exec jekyll server --future

To simply build the site (output placed in the _site directory):

bundle exec jekyll build --future

Note that the --future parameter is only required if you're adding any pages dated in the future (such as prepared release announcements).

To test the site:

bundle exec jekyll build --future --drafts --unpublished
bundle exec htmlproofer --check-html --disable-external --url-ignore '/^\/bin/.*/' ./_site

The additional parameters to jekyll build ensure that all possible pages are built and checked.

Contributing

Contributions welcome. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

References

The website uses an old version of the Minimal Mistakes theme. The theme's website provides documentation, including information about configuration variables, creating pages and posts, adding new Javascript, and more. Note that current documentation may describe features not available in the old version of the theme used by the website.