jekyll-theme-artisan

jekyll-theme-artisan

Artisan is a Jekyll theme for programmer blogs.

jekyll-theme-artisan

Artisan is a Jekyll theme for programmer blogs.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "jekyll-theme-artisan"

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

theme: jekyll-theme-artisan

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-theme-artisan

Contents At-A-Glance

Artisan has been scaffolded by the jekyll new-theme command and therefore has all the necessary files and directories to have a new Jekyll site up and running with zero-configuration.

Usage

Home Layout

home.html is a flexible HTML layout for the site's landing-page / home-page / index-page.

Customization

To override the default structure and style of Artisan, simply create the concerned directory at the root of your site, copy the file you wish to customize to that directory, and then edit the file. e.g., to override the _includes/head.html file to specify a custom style path, create an _includes directory, copy _includes/head.html from Artisan gem folder to <yoursite>/_includes and start editing that file.

This allows you to set which pages you want to appear in the navigation area and configure order of the links.

For instance, to only link to the about and the portfolio page, add the following to you _config.yml:

header_pages:
  - about.md
  - portfolio.md

Change default date format

You can change the default date format by specifying site.artisan.date_format in _config.yml.

# Artisan date format
# refer to http://shopify.github.io/liquid/filters/date/ if you want to
# customize this
artisan:
  date_format: "%b %-d, %Y"

Enabling comments (via Disqus)

Optionally, if you have a Disqus account, you can tell Jekyll to use it to show a comments section below each post.

To enable it, add the following lines to your Jekyll site:

  disqus:
    shortname: my_disqus_shortname

You can find out more about Disqus' shortnames here.

Comments are enabled by default and will only appear in production, i.e., JEKYLL_ENV=production

If you don't want to display comments for a particular post you can disable them by adding comments: false to that post's YAML Front Matter.

Social networks

You can add links to the accounts you have on other sites, with respective icon, by adding one or more of the following options in your config:

twitter_username: jekyllrb
github_username:  jekyll
facebook_username: jekyll
linkedin_username: jekyll
rss: rss

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Enabling Google Analytics

To enable Google Analytics, add the following lines to your Jekyll site:

  google_analytics: UA-NNNNNNNN-N

Google Analytics will only appear in production, i.e., JEKYLL_ENV=production

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/EricHripko/artisan. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Development

To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install.

To test the theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve and open your browser at http://localhost:4000. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.

License

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