Reverie is a Jekyll-powered theme which is simple and opinionated. It's actually a fork of jekyll-now with some additional features and personal touches which I've implemented to suit my needs for my blog.
This is a fork of Reverie focused on removing what I personally consider to be garbage.
This is a plug-and-play Jekyll theme best suited to use on GitHub Pages (or Cloudflare Pages if you want to have your repository private) without even setting up a local environment.
About this fork
I removed ads, disqus comments, social media icons and google analytics.
Why
Reverie introduces some good ideas (pagination, sitemaps, rss feeds, categories, meta tags) but I don't like all of that ads/google stuff. This fork removes all of it.
This fork also removes a lot of css. The is 27.3 KB uncompressed
According to some GTmetrix page speed report, total page size goes down from 833 kb to 21.5 kb. This fork is quite a bit faster:
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Heres another speed test report from Pingdom tools (analysis from the /about page):
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Are these kind of reports useful or just placebo? Who knows, but I love seeing a 90% reduction in filesize.
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Table of Contents
- Features overview
- Removed features
- Using Reverie on GitHub Pages
- Using Categories in Reverie
- Pagination
- RSS
- Sitemap
- Emailware
- The name?
- License
Features overview
- Clean and minimal design
- Single column post layout
- Command-line free fork-first workflow, using GitHub.com to create, customize and post to your blog
- Fully responsive and mobile optimized theme
- Sass/Coffeescript support using Jekyll 2.0
- Free hosting on your GitHub Pages user site
- All the SEO goodies come built-in
- Markdown blogging
- Supports Pullquotes
- Syntax highlighting using Pygments
- Dracula syntax theme included
- Fuzzy search across blog posts
- Blog with pagination
- Categorize posts out-of-the box
- RSS Feed
- Built-in sitemap
Removed features
- Carbon ads
- Disqus commenting
- Social media icons
- Google Analytics integration
- Google Analytics 4
- Google Fonts
- Built in fonts
Using Reverie on GitHub Pages
Setting up Reverie on GitHub Pages is as simple as it gets!
1. Fork Reverie to your User Repository
Fork this repository, then rename the repository to yourgithubusername.github.io.
Alternatively, you can click the Use this template button if you want to create a repository with a clean commit history which will use Reverie as a template.
Your Jekyll blog will often be viewable immediately at https://yourgithubusername.github.io (if it's not, you can often force it to build by completing step 2).
2. Customize and view your site
Enter your site name, description, avatar and many other options by editing the _config.yml file. You can easily turn on Google Analytics tracking, Disqus commenting and social icons here.
Making a change to _config.yml (or any file in your repository) will force GitHub Pages to rebuild your site with Jekyll. Your rebuilt site will be viewable a few seconds later at https://yourgithubusername.github.io - if not, give it ten minutes as GitHub suggests and it'll appear soon.
3. Publish your first blog post
Delete all files from _postsdirectory and create a new file called /_posts/2019-2-13-Hello-World.md to publish your first blog post. That's all you need to do to publish your first blog post! This Markdown Cheatsheet might come in handy while writing the posts.
You can add additional posts in the browser on GitHub.com too! Just hit the Create new file button in
/_posts/to create new content. Just make sure to include the front-matter block at the top of each new blog post and make sure the post's filename is in this format: year-month-day-title.md
Using Categories in Reverie
You can categorize your content based on categories in Reverie. For this, you just need to add categories in front matter like below:
For adding single category:
categories: JavaScriptFor adding multiple categories:
categories: [PHP, Laravel]The categorized content can be shown over this URL: https://yourgithubusername.github.io/categories/
Pagination
Pagination of posts in Reverie works out-of-the-box. You only need to specify the number of posts you want on a single page in _config.yml and Reverie will take care of the rest.
paginate: 6RSS
Reverie comes with a RSS feed in-built. The generated RSS Feed of your blog can be found at https://yourgithubusername.github.io/feed. You can see the example RSS feed over here.
Sitemap
The generated sitemap of your blog can be found at https://yourgithubusername.github.io/sitemap. You can see the example sitemap feed over here.
Emailware
Reverie is an emailware. Meaning, if you liked using this theme or it has helped you in any way, I'd like you send me an email at bullredeyes@gmail.com about anything you'd want to say about this software. I'd really appreciate it!
The name?
reverie - a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.
/ˈrɛv(ə)ri/
License
MIT