panthera-jekyll

panthera-jekyll is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages and Jekyll sites. You can preview the theme to see what it looks like, or even use it today.

Installation

Building a Jekyll Site

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "panthera-jekyll"

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

theme: panthera-jekyll

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install panthera-jekyll

Building a Github Page

Add this line to your Github Page's _config.yml:

remote_theme: christianezeani/panthera-jekyll

Customizing

Configuration variables

panthera-jekyll will respect the following variables, if set in your site's _config.yml:

title: [The title of your site or Profile Name]
subtitle: [A brief subtitle or job title]
description: [A short description of your site's purpose]

To configure the left side set the following variables as shown below:

left_side:
  background_image: [Absolute or relative image url]
  background_color: [CSS background color, e.g. "#F00". We strongly recommend quoting this value. Don't worry about the transparency of the background, we've taken care of that.]
  close_button_color: [CSS background color, e.g. "#F00". We strongly recommend quoting this value.]
  text_color: [CSS background color, e.g. "#F00". We strongly recommend quoting this value.]

Example

left_side:
  background_image: "./assets/images/left-background.jpg"
  background_color: "#F00"
  close_button_color: "#F00"
  text_color: "#F00"

To configure side menu, set the following variables:

menu:
  - text: [Menu text]
    link: [Relative page link with the '/' prefix]
    icon: [Menu Icon]

Example

menu:
  - text: Portfolio
    link: /
    icon: ""

  - text: Skills & Offers
    link: /skills-and-offers
    icon: ""

To configure social links, set the following variables:

social_icons:
  - name: [Socialmedia title]
    link: [Social link]
    icon: [Icon class]

Example

social_icons:
  - name: linkedin
    link: https://www.linkedin.com/christianezeani
    icon: fab fa-linkedin

  - name: github
    link: https://github.com/christianezeani
    icon: fab fa-github-square

To configure footer, set the following variables:

footer:
  copyright_text: [The copyright text. Value should be quoted]

Example

footer:
  copyright_text: "© Christian Ezeani"

panthera-jekyll currently supports the following icons:

• FontAwesome (version 5.9.0)

Stylesheet

If you'd like to add your own custom styles:

1. Create a file called /assets/css/style.scss in your site

2. Add the following content to the top of the file, exactly as shown:

   ---
   ---
   
   @import "panthera-jekyll";
   

3. Add any custom CSS (or Sass, including imports) you'd like immediately after the @import line

Note: If you'd like to change the theme's Sass variables, you must set new values before the @import line in your stylesheet.

Blog Posts

Creating Posts

To create a post, add a file to your _posts directory with the following format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP

Where YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers, and MARKUP is the file extension representing the format used in the file. For example, the following are examples of valid post filenames:

2020-07-10-new-years-eve-is-awesome.md

---
layout: post
title: First Demo Post
date: 2020-07-10 13:32:20 +0300
description: Post description (optional)
image: /image.jpg (optional)
tags: [Holidays, Hawaii]
---

Post content here

Displaying an index of posts

1. Create a page, e.g. posts.md, with the following content:

---
layout: post
---

# PAGE TITLE HERE

{% include posts/index.html %}

2. Add a link to the left pane in your _config.yml

menu:
  ...
  - text: Blog Posts
    link: /posts
    icon: ""

...and you're good

More post features are coming soon. To get updates on new features, hit the Watch button at the top of this page to get notifications.

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Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/chrisitanezeani/panthera-jekyll. 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.

License

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