A free and open-source Jekyll theme. Based on Rohan Chandra type-theme with a few new features:
- Responsive design
- Portfolio page for your projects
- Tags compatibility
- Bootstrap : Get Bootstrap
- Search feature : Simple-Jekyll-Search
- Math Rendering : KateX
- Nice fonts : Font Awesome, Source Sans Pro, Pacifico
- Seo Tags : Jekyll-seo-tag
- Syntax Highlighting: Easily customisable Base16
- Free of rights images from pexels
Check out this tutorial: Use as Ruby Gem
- Fork and clone the Type on Strap repo:
git clone https://github.com/Sylhare/Type-on-Strap.git
- Install Jekyll:
gem install jekyll
, check #1 if you have a problem. - Install the theme's dependencies:
bundle install
- Customize the theme
- Github Page: update
_config.yml
- Github Page: update
- Run the Jekyll server:
bundle exec jekyll serve
Here are the main files of the template
jekyll-theme-basically-basic
βββ _includes # theme includes
βββ _layouts # theme layouts (see below for details)
βββ _portfolio # collection of article to be populated in the portfolio page
βββ _posts # Blog posts
βββ _sass # Sass partials
βββ assets
| βββ js # theme javascript, Katex, jquery, bootstrap, jekyll search,
| βββ css # isolated Bootstrap, font-awesome, katex and main css
| βββ fonts # Font-Awesome, and other fonts
| βββ img # Images used for the template
βββ pages
| βββ 404.md # To be displayed when url is wrong
| βββ about.md # About example page
| βββ gallery.md # Gallery page for your photos
| βββ portfolio.md # Portfolio page for your projects
| βββ search.html # Search page
| βββ tags.md # The tag page
βββ _config.yml # sample configuration
βββ index.html # sample home page (blog page paginated)
Open _config.yml
in a text editor to change most of the blog's settings.
If a variable in this document is marked as "optional", disable the feature by removing all text from the variable.
Configure Jekyll as your own blog or with a subpath in in _config.yml
:
Jekyll website without a subpath (such as a GitHub Pages website for a given username):
baseurl: ""
url: "https://username.github.io"
Jekyll website with subpath (like the Type on Strap demo page):
baseurl: "/sub-directory"
url: "https://username.github.io/"
Please configure this before using the theme.
Meta variables hold basic information about your Jekyll site which will be used throughout the site and as meta properties for search engines, browsers, and the site's RSS feed.
Change these variables in _config.yml
:
title: My Jekyll Blog # Name of website
avatar: assets/img/triangle.png # Path of avatar image, to be displayed in the theme's header
description: My blog posts # Short description, primarily used by search engines
favicon: assets/favicon.ico # Icon displayed in the tab
Customize your site header/footer with these variables in _config.yml
:
header_text: Welcome to my Jekyll blog
header_feature_image: assets/img/sample3.png
footer_text: Copyright 2017
If you don't want anything, replace the value by " "
.
Localization string is a way to quickly change the template language for text like Next Post or Follow on, ...
You can find all the properties in _data/language.yml
.
By default it is in english, but you can easily add your own language.
To enable Google Analytics, add your tracking ID
to _config.yml
like so:
google_analytics: UA-NNNNNNNN-N
Optionally, if you have a Disqus account, you can show a comments section below each post.
To enable Disqus comments, add your Disqus shortname
to your project's _config.yml
file:
disqus_shortname: my_disqus_shortname
When KateX is set in _config.yml
:
katex: true # to Enable it
You can then wrap math expressions with $$
signs in your posts and make sure you have set the katex
variable
in _config.yml
to true
for math typesetting.
For inline math typesetting, type your math expression on the same line as your content. For example:
Type math within a sentence $$2x^2 + x + c$$ to display inline
For display math typesetting, type your math expression on a new line. For example:
$$
\bar{y} = {1 \over n} \sum_{i = 1}^{n}y_i
$$
In _data/social.yml
you can customize the social icons from other wbesite you wish to display in the blog.
The site icons come from Font Awesome.
The share icons are the one at the bottom of the blog page if enabled, to share the article on those platform.
Display in the footer.
All icon variables should be your username enclosed in quotes (e.g. "username") in _config.yml
,
except for the following variables:
rss: true # Make sure you created a feed.xml with feed.xml layout
email_address: type@example.com
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/FirstLast
stack_exchange: https://stackexchangecom/users/0000/first-last
stack_overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/0000/first-last
When writing a post, be sure in jekyll to:
- Put it in the
_posts
folder - Name it with the date first like
2019-08-21-This-is-my-blog-post.md
This are the basic features you can use with the post
layout.
---
layout: post
title: Hello World # Title of the page
hide_title: true # Hide the title when displaying the post, but shown in lists of posts
feature-img: "assets/img/sample.png" # Add a feature-image to the post
thumbnail: "assets/img/thumbnail/sample-th.png" # Add a thumbnail image on blog view
color: rgb(80,140,22) # Add the specified color as feature image, and change link colors in post
bootstrap: true # Add bootstrap to the page
tags: [sample, markdown, html]
---
With thumbnail
, you can add a smaller image than the feature-img
.
If you don't have a thumbnail you can still use the same image as the feature one.
The background used when color
is set comes from lineart.png
from xukimseven
you can edit it in the config file (_config.yml > color_image
). If you want another one, put it in /assets/img
as well.
The bootstrap is not mandatory and is only useful if you want to add bootstrapped content in your page. It will respect the page and theme layout, mind the padding on the sides.
The excerpt are the first lines of an article that is display on the blog page.
The length of the excerpt has a default of around 250
characters and can be manually set in the post using:
---
layout: post
title: Sample Page
excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
---
some text in the excerpt
<!--more-->
... rest of the text not shown in the excerpt ...
The html is stripped out of the excerpt so it only display text.
Please refer to the Jekyll docs for writing posts. Non-standard features are documented below.
The page layout have a bit more features explained here.
---
layout: page
title: "About"
subtitle: "This is a subtitle"
feature-img: "assets/img/sample.png"
permalink: /about.html # Set a permalink your your page
hide: true # Prevent the page title to appear in the navbar
icon: "fa-search" # Will Display only the fontawesome icon (here: fa-search) and not the title
tags: [sample, markdown, html]
---
The hide only hides your page from the navigation bar, it is however still generated and can be access through its link.
This layout includes the head, navigation bar and footer around your content.
All feature pages besides the "home" one are stored in the page
folder,
they will appear in the navigation bar unless you set Hide: true
in the front matter.
Here are the documentation for the other feature pages that can be added through _config.yml
.
This page is used as the home page of the template (in the index.html
). It displays the list of articles in _posts
.
You can use this layout in another page (adding a title to it will make it appear in the navigation bar).
The recommended width and height for the home picture is width:2484px;
and height:1280px
which are the dimensions of the actual picture for it to be rolling down as you scroll the page.
If your posts are not displaying ensure that you have added the line paginate: 5
to _config.yml
.
Portfolio is a feature page that will take all the markdown/html files in the _portfolio
folder to create a 3-columns image portfolio matrix.
To use the portfolio, simply create a portfolio.md
with this information inside:
---
layout: page
title : Portfolio
---
{% include portfolio.html %}
You can format the portfolio posts in the _portfolio
folder using the post layout
. Here are little explaination on some of the possible feature you can use and what they will do.
If you decide to use a date, please be sure to use one that can be parsed such as yyyy-mm-dd
. You can see more format example on the demo posts that are available for the theme:
---
layout: post
title: Circus # Title of the portfolio post
feature-img: "assets/img/portfolio/cake.png" # Will display the image in the post
img: "assets/img/portfolio/cake.png" # Will display the image in the portfolio page
date: 2019-07-25 # Not mandatory, however needs to be in date format to display the date
---
Make sure your _config.yml
contains the following if you are using the theme as a gem:
# PORTFOLIO
collections:
portfolio:
output: true
permalink: /:collection/:name
This creates the collection for Jekyll so it can find and display your portfolio posts.
You can create a gallery using Masonry JS which will placing the pictures in optimal position
based on available vertical space.
You need to specify the gallery_path
which will be used to find the pictures to render.
It will take all of the picture under that directory. Then use the include
to add it in your page.
---
layout: page
title: Gallery
gallery: "assets/img/pexels"
---
{% include gallery.html gallery_path=page.gallery %}
The search feature is based on Simple-Jekyll-search
there is a search.json
file that will create a list of all of the site posts, pages and portfolios.
Then there's a search.js
displaying the formatted results entered in the search.html
page.
The search page can be hidden with the hide
option. You can remove the icon by removing icon
:
---
layout: search
title: Search
icon: "search"
---
Tags should be placed between []
in your post metadata. Separate each tag with a comma.
Tags are recommended for posts and portfolio items.
For example:
---
layout: post
title: Markdown and HTML
tags: [sample, markdown, html]
---
Tags are case sensitive
Tag_nAme
βtag_name
All the tags will be listed in tags.html
with a link toward the pages or posts.
The Tag page can be hidden with the hide
option. You can remove the icon by removing icon
(like for the search page).
Jekyll works with liquid tags usually represented by:
{{ liquid.tag | filter }}
These are useful to render your jekyll files. You can learn more about them on shopify's doc
Before you need to have node
and npm
installed:
- Windows: https://nodejs.org/
- Ubuntu/Debian:
apt-get install nodejs npm libgl1 libxi6
- Fedora (dnf) / RHEL/CentOS (yum):
dnf install node npm libglvnd-glx libXi
Then you need to install gulp-cli
and its dependencies:
cd assets/
sudo npm install gulp-cli -g
npm install
Now, whenever you want to minify and optimize, run:
cd assets/
gulp default
# tip: run a git status to see the changes
git status
You can use Type-on-strap as a gem.
Ruby Gem Method Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile (or create one):
gem "type-on-strap"
Add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml
file:
theme: type-on-strap
Then run Bundler to install the theme gem and dependencies:
bundle install
Then you can start adding content like:
- Add a
index.html
file - Add the feature page you want. (ex: as it is already in
pages
) - Add posts in
_posts
and_portfolio
to be displayed
Now you can use any theme gem with github pages with 29/11/2017 Github Pages Broadcast.
For that remove all theme:
attributes from _config.yml
and add instead:
remote_theme: sylhare/Type-on-Strap
There are some fonts and component on this theme going under the MIT licence as well in this theme. The MIT License (MIT)