Benjeto

Benjeto is a sleek and modern Jekyll Theme designed to create personal websites that resemble social media profiles.
This theme is perfect for sharing short posts or updates as well as long articles, and it offers a calm design with support for dark mode.

• A Jekyll Theme for creating personal websites with a look similar to social media profiles.
• Optimized for posting short updates. (and of course for longer articles.)
• Supports multilingual functionality with jekyll-polyglot, including RTL.
• Compatible with jekyll-paginate and jekyll-paginate-v2.

Sample website is here.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "benjeto-jekyll-theme"

And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: benjeto-jekyll-theme

And install the theme and its dependancies:

$ bundle install

Settings

_config.yml

Refer to the sample configuration. Specifically,

defaults:
  - values:
      title: ""

is necessary for creating short posts without titles.

Profile

Copy _data/profile.yml to your site to create your profile.
Use relative links for images: the header should be in a 5:1 ratio and the icon in a 1:1 ratio.

Benjeto Settings

Copy _data/settings.yml to your site.

For tabs created in home.tabs, you need to create a dedicated page with layout: home.
When specifying pagination.category or pagination.tag, posts will be filtered by jekyll-feed.
Refer to the sample for guidance.

Translation

If you are building a site in a language other than English, translation files are available in _data/texts.yml.
You can also modify the text for categories and tags.

Custom Head and CSS

You can configure the head in _includes/custom_head.html.
You can configure the CSS in _sass/benjeto/custom.scss.

Using includes

image.html

figure image with caption and license.
Set pixel to true to support pixel art.

{% include image.html
   src="/assets/sample.png"
   pixel=false
   alt="Sample alt"
   caption="This is a sample image"
   license="CC BY-SA 4.0"
   license_url="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
%}

video.html

Video player with title, caption, thumbnail, and license

{% include video.html
   src="/assets/sample.mp4"
   title="Sample video"
   poster="/assets/thumbnail.png"
   caption="This is a sample video"
   license="CC BY-SA 4.0"
   license_url="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
%}

audio.html

Audio player with title, caption, artwork, and license

{% include audio.html
   src="/assets/sapmle.mp3"
   title="Sample music"
   artwork="/assets/artwork.png"
   alt="Artwork alt"
   caption="This is a sample music"
   license="CC BY-SA 4.0"
   license_url="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
%}

youtube.html and nicovideo.html

Embedded video player for YouTube and Niconico

YouTube
{% include youtube.html id="rdwz7QiG0lk" aspect="4/3" title="YouTube on the tube!" %}

Niconico
{% include nicovideo.html id="sm38213757" aspect="16/9" title="削除動画" %}

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

This project uses the following open source software:

• Jekyll - MIT License
• jekyll-feed - MIT License
• jekyll-paginate - MIT License
• jekyll-paginate-v2 - MIT License
• jekyll-polyglot - MIT License

Each of these libraries is licensed under the MIT License. Please see the respective LICENSE files for more information.