gatsby-starter

Gatsby starter for creating a blog

Based on demo.

Install this starter (assuming Gatsby is installed) by running from your CLI: gatsby new gatsby-blog https://github.com/sriddell/gatsby-basic-blog.git

Running in development

gatsby develop

deploying to gh-pages

If you have a custom domain, put it in pages/CNAME. You can deploy to Google Pages with npm run deploy.

configuration

Go edit config.toml. Change it to all of your stuff. change pages/author.png to your own picture.

creating posts

Your content goes in /pages. This starter defines a default hello world type blog post.

Each post should be in its own directory under pages. Recommendation is to name it with the date and something descriptions, e.g. "2017-01-23-dns-sd".

Inside the directory, make your post in index.md in markdown, and include the following front matter yaml at the top:

---
title: Hello World
date: "2017-01-23T22:12:03.284Z"
layout: post
---

You can get more specific with the front matter, for example:

---
title: Hello World
date: "2015-05-01T22:12:03.284Z"
layout: post
readNext: "/my-second-post/"
path: "/hello-world/"
tags:
  - Hello
  - world
  - demo
---

Instead of using your directly name for the link, it will use /hello-world/ as the path, and provide a read next link to the relative path /my-second-post. It will also tag the post with 'Hello', 'world', and 'demo'.