Kirby Kickoff is my personal starting point for a new project using Kirby CMS. While I like that Kirby doesn’t assume much and comes fairly stripped down out-of-the-box, I always find myself adding, removing and changing the items below for each of my Kirby-driven sites.

Changes

• Panel pre-installed
• XML Sitemap pre-installed
  • Note: I’ve adjusted the default sitemap installation to better handle invisible/draft pages per this issue
• Tagcloud plugin pre-installed
• Panel Tags Field pre-installed
• humans.txt
• robots.txt
  • Note: Be sure to change sitemap URL
• Site config
  • Changed Kirbytext video size to 960x540
  • Turned on Markdown Extra
  • Turned on Smartypants
  • Turned off built-in tinyurl
  • Changed timezone to America/New_York
  • Changed content extension from txt to md
  • Added a custom config file for ‘localhost’, to turn on Kirby debugging and turn off caching when running the site locally
• Panel config
  • Added image/svg+xml MIME type
  • Added application/postscript MIME type
• segment.io snippet for analytics
  • Global $site variable for your unique key
• Typekit snippet
  • Global $site variable for your Kit ID
• Sass structure set up
• Scripts
• Robots meta tag set to no index for invisible pages
  • Need to review (possibly break out into a snippet variable, so controlled per page through content?)

Installation

To Do

• Snippet for segment.io event tracking
• Review favicon and Apple icons
• Review Sitemap and deep invisible pages
• Include a standard production-ready .htaccess file
• Per-page meta descriptions (right now, a global $site variable sets this for every page resulting in duplicate and non-distinct page descriptions)