Jekyll Theme Textalic

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Textalic is a simple, responsive jekyll theme focus on blogging. Here is a live demo.

Features

  • Github flavor markdown rendering
  • Post category, tag and series
  • Code highlighting
  • Autogenerate table of content
  • Disqus comment
  • Fulltext search (powered by jekyll-simple-search plugin)
  • Google analytics
  • Atom feed
  • Sitemap

Install & Configuration

Set up jekyll

Before anything, make sure you have set up jekyll correctly. See the official jekyll doc.

Clone this repo

Clone this repo into to your local machine, then cd to the root directory of your local copy. Here is an overview of the project’s file structure:

jekyll-theme-textalic
├── 404.html                    # 404 page
├── Gemfile
├── LICENCE
├── _config.yml                 # Main config
├── _data
│   └── me.yml                  # Personal info config
├── _demo_series                # A demo series, add series into series folder
│   └── demo_series_post_1.md
├── _includes
├── _layouts
├── _posts
│   └── 2019-12-25-Intro.md     # Add new post here
├── _sass
├── about                       # About page
├── assets                      # images, fonts, css, js...
│   ├── img
│   │   ├── me.png              # Replace with your own, showed in /about page
├── favicon.ico                 # Replace with your own
├── feed.xml
├── index.html
├── resume
│   └── index.md                # You may write your resume here. linked in /about page
├── search.json
├── series
└── tag

Install gems

Run the following to install required gems defined in Gemfile:

$ bundle install

Customization

Edit _config.yml and _data/me.yml to tweek the site configuration to your need. See corresponding file’s comments for details.

You also should replace the /favicon.ico and /assets/img/me.png file with your own.

Run locally

Run bundle exec serve --watch to run it locally.

Blogging

You can begin writting your posts under /_posts folder. See Jekyll doc on posts.

Posts are automatically grouped under site’s post/category and post/tag menu. You can define post’s category and tags in the post’s front matter, using category and tags front matter block.

Series

Sereis are implemented using Jekyll’s collections. So to add new series, following these steps:

  1. Define a new collection in _config.yml, under collections configuration block

     collections:
   demo_series:
     output: true

    Note that to make the change to _config.yml take effects, you need to restart jekyll.

  2. Create the series (aka collection) folder /_demo_series. Note that the folder name begin with _

  3. By adding new post under series folder, you add post under the corresponding series

Deployment

See Jekyll doc on deployment

That’s it

Happy blogging!