Steve for Jekyll

Steve is a charming and fun blog theme for Jekyll, the static site generator. It's developed by @arthrfrts to be used on the Esporo websites — but feel free to use it in any project you may find it fitting.

See it in action on the demo site.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "steve-for-jekyll"

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

theme: steve-for-jekyll

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install steve

Steve will work out-of-the-box when installed, but it has plenty of options for you to make it yours. Refer to the theme documentation to learn how to add menus, comments, change your theme style or set up Steve's options.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/esporo/steve. 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.

Your theme is setup just like a normal Jekyll site! To test your 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.

When your theme is released, only the files in _layouts, _includes, _sass and assets tracked with Git will be bundled. To add a custom directory to your theme-gem, please edit the regexp in steve-for-jekyll.gemspec accordingly.

License

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