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A minimal, portfolio, sidebar, bootstrap Jekyll theme with responsive web design and focuses on text exhibition. It will help you easily record, manage and share your knowledge and experience.
You will get the following features:
- Auto Dark Mode
- Posts' Last Modified Date
- Table of Contents
- Recommand Related Post Automatically
- Disqus Comments
- Syntax highlighting
- Two Level Categories
- Search
- HTML Compress
- Atom Feeds
- Google Analytics
- GA Pageviews (Advanced)
- SEO Tag
- Performance Optimization
Follow the Jekyll Docs to complete the installtion of basic environment (Ruby, RubyGem, Bundler and Jekyll). In order to use the script tools to save time, we also need to install Python(version 3.5 or abover) and ruamel.yaml.
In addition, if your machine is running Debian or macOS, make sure you have the GNU coreutils installed. Otherwise, get it by:
- Debian
$ sudo apt-get install coreutils
- macOS
$ brew install coreutils
Fork Chirpy from GitHub, then clone your forked repo to local:
$ git clone git@github.com:USER/jekyll-theme-chirpy.git
replace the USER
above to your GitHub username.
The first time you run or build the project on your machine, perform the installation of Jekyll plugins. Go to the root of repo and run:
$ bundle install
bundle
will automatically install all the dependent Jekyll Plugins that listed in the Gemfile
.
The main files and related brief introductions are listed below.
jekyll-theme-chirpy/
├── _data
├── _includes
├── _layouts
├── _posts # posts stay here
├── _scripts
│ └── travis # CI stuff, remove it
├── .travis.yml # remove this, too
├── .github # remove it
├── assets
├── tabs
│ └── about.md # the ABOUT page
├── .gitignore
├── 404.html
├── Gemfile
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── _config.yml # configuration file
├── tools # script tools
├── docs
├── feed.xml
├── index.html
├── robots.txt
└── sitemap.xml
As mentioned above, some files or directories should be removed from your repo:
- .travis.yml
- .github
- _scripts/travis
Basically, go to _config.yml
and customize the variables as needed, some of them are typical options:
-
Avatar
avatar
defines the source image location. The sample image is/assets/img/sample/avatar.jpg
. It should be replaced by your own one. Notice that a huge image file will increase the load time of your site, so keep your avatar size as samll as possible(may be https://tinypng.com/ will help). -
TimeZone
To ensure that the posts' release date matches the city you live in, please modify the field
timezone
correctly. A list of all available values can be found on TimezoneConverter or Wikipedia.
You may want to preview the site before publishing, so just run the script tool:
$ bash tools/run.sh
Open a modern brower and visit at http://localhost:4000.
Few days later, you may find that the file modification(e.g. edits to a post) does not refresh in real time by using run.sh
. Don't worry, the advanced option -r
(or --realtime
) will solve this problem, but it requires fswatch to be installed on your machine. Type -h
for more information.
Before the deployment begins, ensure the url
in file _config.yml
has been set to https://<username>.github.io
(or the custom domain, if you have. e.g. https://yourdomain.com
).
By deploying the site in this way, you're allowed to push the source code directly to the remote.
Note: If you want to use any third-party Jekyll plugins that not in this list, stop reading the current approach and go to Option 2: Build locally.
1. Rename the repository to:
Site Type | Repo's Name |
---|---|
User or Organization | <username>.github.io |
Project | any one except <username>.github.io , let's say project |
2. Commit the changes of the repo first, then run the initialization script:
$ bash tools/init.sh
Note: The Recent Update requires the posts' latest git-log date, so make sure the changes in
_posts
have been committed before running this command.
it will automatically generates the Latest Modified Date and Categories / Tags page for the posts.
3. Push the changes to origin/master
then go to GitHub website and enable GitHub Pages service for the repo.
4. Check it out:
Site Type | Site URL |
---|---|
User or Organization | https://<username>.github.io/ |
Project | https://<username>.github.io/project/ |
For security reasons, GitHub Pages runs on safe
mode, which means the third-party Jekyll plugins or custom scripts won't work. If you want to use any another plugins that not in the whitelist, you have to generate the site locally rather than on GitHub Pages.
1. Browse to GitHub website, create a brand new repo named:
Site Type | Repo's Name |
---|---|
User or Organization | <username>.github.io |
Project | any one except <username>.github.io , let's say project |
and clone it.
2. In the root of the source project, build your site by:
$ bash tools/build.sh -d /path/to/local/project/
If you prefer to the Project site, change baseurl
of file _config.yml
to your project name, starting with a slash. e.g. /project
. Or, simply add argument -b /project
behide the command above.
The generated static files will be placed in the root of /path/to/local/project
. Commit and push the changes to the master
branch on GitHub.
3. Go to GitHub website and enable Pages service for the new repository.
4. Visit at:
Site Type | Site URL |
---|---|
User or Organization | https://<username>.github.io/ |
Project | https://<username>.github.io/project/ |
and enjoy!
- Jekyll
- Bootstrap
- Font Awesome
- jQuery
- Bootstrap TOC
- Simple Jekyll Search
- Lozad.js
- countUp.js
- Compress HTML
- ruamel.yaml
- HTML proofer
- Travis CI
- Disqus
- Google Analytics
🎉Thanks to the following developers for contributing to this project:
Want to buy me a coffee? Click the button ❤️Sponsor at the top of the Home Page and choose a link that suits you to donate. I'd really appreciate it and take it as encouragement to work on better projects.
For more details and the better reading experience, please check out the tutorial in Demo Site. In the meanwhile, a copy of the tutorial is also available on the Wiki.
This work is published under MIT License.