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dev-portfolio-blog

This is a minimal jekyll theme for writing blogs and about yourself.

features

  1. Google Analytics
  2. Many themes such as: Default, Solarized, and Sepia. All in light and dark modes.
  3. Disqus comments
  4. Categorization
  5. Emojis Support
  6. Highly optimized blog

    PageSpeed Insights

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Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "dev-portfolio-blog"

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

theme: dev-portfolio-blog

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install dev-portfolio-blog

Usage

To start using the theme you either follow these steps or simply fork my repo https://github.com/rohitjain00/rohitjain00.github.io and update the files.

Please use the theme as the plugin so that all the latest updated for this theme comes directly in your website.

Clone the branch master and change the theme accordingly.

Starting from the beginning:

Assuming that you started your first website based on minima theme from here

  1. Add a favicon.ico to the root directory for favicon.

  2. Create blog.md in the root folder ans set its yaml parameters to

layout: blog
permalink: /blog/
title: [Blog Page Title]
pagination:
  enabled: true
  1. Change your about.md yaml parameters to following
layout: description
permalink: /about/
title: About
  1. In the index.md file add
layout: home
home_text: Text
title: [Home Page Title]
  1. Create a new categories.md file in root with following yaml parameters

    layout: categories
    permalink: /categories/
    title: Categories
    
  2. In the _config.yml file add following and change accordingly

Path is relative to the root directory

resume_url: [PATH_TO_RESUME]
author_name: [YOUR_NAME]
description: [SITE_DESCRIPTION]
url: [WEBSITE_URL]
google_analytics: '[google analytics Id]'
disqus:
    shortname: [discus-shotname]

Minifier

Visit Jekyll-minifier and add this to your _config.yml file to enable minifier.

Pagination

Visit jekyll-paginate-v2 and add this to your _config.yml file to enable pagination.

Check here _config.yml for example config file.

Writing a new blog

Create a new folder _posts in root folder if not already exists.

  1. Create a new markdown file in the format yyyy-mm-dd-postname.md
  2. Make sure that disqus's shortname is valid.
  3. Add yaml configuartion to the post
---
layout: post
comments: [true | false]
title: Hello World
categories: [category1, category2]
---
Post Text.

Troubleshooting

  • Could not find a JavaScript runtime. See https://github.com/rails/execjs for a list of available runtimes Node JS is missing from your system. In ubuntu install using sudo apt-get install nodejs or refer to this

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/rohitjain00/dev-portfolio-blog/. 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 dev-portfolio-blog.gemspec accordingly.

Read about the themes and how it's implemented here

License

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

If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee here :smile:

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