Jekyll Photo Gallery

I want to share my jekyll photo gallery, simple, functional, mobile friendly and most essential, pretty! The gallery is based on the design from Henrrique Gusso and utilizes the jekyll gallery generator plugin to do most of the heavy lifting (with some minor changes).

Dependencies

(copied from the plugin repo)

• ImageMagick
• RMagick
• exifr
• Ruby >= 2.1

Install dependencies on OS X

brew install imagemagick rbenv
rbenv install 2.4.0
rbenv global 2.4.0
gem install rmagick exifr

Install dependencies on Ubuntu

apt install libmagick++-dev
gem install rmagick exifr

Configuration

This plugin reads several config options from _config.yml. The following options are supported (default settings are shown):

# The following options are for individual galleries.
gallery:
  dir: photos               # root folder with all the pictures 
  title: "Photos"           
  sort_field: "date"        # sort pictures by date
  title_prefix: ""          # title prefix
  symlink: false            # false: copy images into _site. true: create symbolic links (saves disk space)
  thumbnail_size:           # 
    y: 450                  #
    retina: 1.5             #
  galleries:
    2017_Berlin:            # folder name
      name: "Berlin"        # gallery name
      date: "2017/08/01"    # gallery date
      best_image: 0062.jpg  # best photo for gallery blur image and gallery index 

Thanks to

• The people behind jekyll project
• Geoff Greer for the script
• Gusso for the design