They say three times the charm, so here is another free responsive Jekyll theme for you. I've learned a ton since open sourcing my first two themes on Github, and wanted to try a few new things this time around. If you've used my previous themes most of this should be familiar territory...
- Responsive templates for post, page, and post index
_layouts. Looks great on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. - Gracefully degrades in older browsers. Compatible with Internet Explorer 8+ and all modern browsers.
- Modern and minimal design.
- Sweet animated menu.
- Readable typography to make your words shine.
- Support for large images to call out your favorite posts.
- Comments powered by Disqus if you choose to enable.
- Social Sharing links for Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ if you choose to enable.
- Simple and clear permalink structure.
- Open Graph and Twitter Cards support for a better social sharing experience.
- Simple custom 404 page to get you started.
- Stylesheets for Pygments and Coderay syntax highlighting to make your code examples look snazzy
- Grunt build script for easy theme development
- Available in Spanish. Thanks @cruznick!
General notes and suggestions for customizing HPSTR.
- Install Bundler
gem install bundlerand then install Jekyll and all dependenciesbundle install. - Fork the HPSTR Jekyll Theme repo.
- Clone the repo you just forked and rename it.
- Edit
_config.ymlto personalize your site. - Check out the sample posts in
_poststo see examples for pulling in large feature images, assigning categories and tags, and other YAML data. - Read the documentation below for further customization pointers and documentation.
Pro-tip: Delete the gh-pages branch after cloning and start fresh by branching off master. There is a bunch of garbage in gh-pages used for the theme's demo site that I'm guessing you don't want on your site.
- Clone the following folders:
_includes,_layouts,assets, andimages. - Clone the following files and personalize content as need:
about.md,posts.html,index.html,tags.html, andfeed.xml. - Set the following variables in your
config.ymlfile:
title: Site Title
description: Describe your website here.
disqus_shortname: shortname
# Your site's domain goes here. When working locally use localhost server leave blank
# PS. If you set this wrong stylesheets and scripts won't load and most links will break.
# PPS. If you leave it blank for local testing home links won't work, they'll be fine for live domains though.
url: http://localhost:4000
# Owner/author information
owner:
name: Your Name
avatar: avatar.jpg
bio: "Your bio goes here. It shouldn't be super long but a good two sentences or two should suffice."
email: you@email.com
# Social networking links used in footer. Update and remove as you like.
twitter:
facebook:
github:
stackexchange:
linkedin:
instagram:
flickr:
tumblr:
# For Google Authorship https://plus.google.com/authorship
# google plus id, include the '+', eg +mmistakes
google_plus: +yourid
# Analytics and webmaster tools stuff goes here
google_analytics:
google_verify:
# https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/configure/verify/ownership Option 2 content= goes here
bing_verify:
# Links to include in top navigation
# For external links add external: true
links:
- title: Theme Setup
url: /theme-setup
- title: External Link
url: http://mademistakes.com
external: true
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
timezone: America/New_York
future: true
pygments: true
markdown: kramdown
# Amount of posts to show on home page
paginate: 5To learn more about how to customize the theme, include feature images in posts, use the Grunt build script, and some other junk, read up here.
Having a problem getting something to work or want to know why I setup something in a certain way? Ping me on Twitter @mmistakes or file a GitHub Issue. And if you make something cool with this theme feel free to let me know.
This theme is free and open source software, distributed under the The MIT License. So feel free to to modify this theme to suit your needs.