jekyll-theme-mehdix-rtl

This is the jekyll theme used for my personal Persian website. Persian aka Farsi is written right-to-left, however some people use Roman script to write Persian language in messaging applications and social networks.

During the last few years people have reached out to me asking how to setup a persian Jekyll website with Jalali calendar support. Since Jekyll now supports themes, I created this theme based on my website to help others to bootstrap their own websites.

This repository can be of use to anybody willing to build a new right to left website. I gradually fix issues which I came across while writing new posts in my website. This website is produced using Jekyll static site generator.

Installation

Take the following steps to make your own website based on this theme. First of all, create your website if you have not already:

$ jekyll create mywebsite

Then add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "jekyll-theme-mehdix-rtl"

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

theme: jekyll-theme-mehdix-rtl

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-theme-mehdix-rtl

You can override theme style by creating matching files with the same structure inside your Jekyll source tree. See Jekyll Themes docs for more information on that.

Enable the Plugins

This theme uses some jekyll plugins. Enable them by adding them to the plugins section in the config file:

plugins:
  - jekyll-jalali
  - jekyll-sitemap
  - jekyll-paginate
  - jekyll-hinduarabic
  - jekyll-seo-tag

Further customization

Styles

You can create a _sass folder and put a file named custom.scss in it. This theme will load it by default.

Layouts

The following layouts are available for your homepage:

• home: post titles along with an excerpt and pagination
• minimal: only post titles

Comments

This theme supports three comment systems. First one is disqus. In order to enalbe disqus comments add comment_system:disqus and disqus_shortname:DISQUS_USERNAME to your _config.yml file.

The second approach is static comments. In order to enable static comments add comment_system:static to the config file. This will load commends from _data/comments folder. There should be one YAML file per post. Name of the file should be the uuid of the post (each post must have a uuid in its front matter). The following sample defines two comments for post with uuid 0b64d07f-6c08-475b-a509-463df5458039:

- date: 20171220
  name: تقی
  email: [email protected]
  url: https://johndoe.com
  text: >
      نوکرتم دادا!
      کوجایی تو؟

- date: 20171221
  name: تقی ۲
  email: [email protected]
  url: https://johndoe.com
  text: >
      [۲] دادا خبری نیت ازت

For the time being I am using Netlify to handle custom comment forms on each post page and add them to the comments using the netlify_comments.py script.

Forcing RTL code blocks

If you put code blocks and they appear incorrectly, you can use _Markright gem. First add it to your Gemfile:

gem "jekyll-markright"

And change your _config.yml respectively:

markdown: Markright

Footer

If any of the following ids is present in the config a corresponding item will be added to the footer:

• github_username
• twitter_username
• feedburner_id
• email

Analytics

In order to send pageviews to Google Analytics set your ID in the _config.yml: google_analytics_id: YOUR_ID

SEO

Make sure to fill entries in the config file correctly to get a better search engine experience. Specially fill the SEO section with your Github and Twitter usernames. Don't forget to add lang and logo entries. See jekyll-seo-tag for further information.

License

MIT

<div dir="rtl" lang="fa">مطلب مورد نظر</div>