Will's Food Blog

Forked from Mediator

Features

Fully Responsive layout
Use header images in articles, if you want to (add tag "image" and url to the image in the front matter section of a post)
Minimal design
Featured article support
FontAwesome implemented for easy use of icons fonts
Free & Open Source Font usage

I Added

Jekyll compose for command line composing
Jekyll Sitemap for potential SEO improvements

TODO

Topic/Tag/Category pages
OpenGraph?
Embeds?
Analytics
Search Console
AMP?

Getting Started

Clone this repository
Install the requried gems: bundle install
Run the jekyll server: bundle exec jekyll serve --drafts

You should have a server up and running locally at http://localhost:4000.

Writing a new draft

Start in a draft mode: bundle exec jekyll draft "My new draft"
bundle exec jekyll publish _drafts/my-new-draft.md
or specify a specific date on which to publish it: bundle exec jekyll publish _drafts/my-new-draft.md --date 2014-01-24

Writing a new page or post directly

bundle exec jekyll page "My New Page"
bundle exec jekyll post "My New Post"

Assets

Favicon generated using http://www.xiconeditor.com/ in a process outlined here http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/how-to-make-a-favicon

Configuration

The main settings happen in side of the _config.yml file:

Site

Main settings for the site

title: name of your site
description: description of your site
logo: small logo for the site (300x * 300x)
cover: large background image on the index page
name: name site owner
email: mail address of the site owner
author: author name
author_image: small image of author (300x * 300px)
disqus: add a disqus forum for your post

Social

The template allows to add all major social platforms to your site. Fill the the form for each platform. If you leave the share_* entries empty, the sharing buttons below a post are not shown. If you leave the url and desc empty the icons are not shown on the index page, but the share icons on the article pages remains untouched (Thanks to Phil)

icon: name of social platform (must match a name of font-awsome icon set )
url: url of your account
desc: slogan of the platform
share_url: share url
share_title: first part of url for the title
share_link: second part of the share url for the link to the post

The Liquid template engine will magical combine the different parts to a share url.

http://twitter.com/share?text=post_title&amp;url=post_url

See _config.yml for more examples.

Licensing

MIT with no added caveats, so feel free to use this on your site without linking back to me or using a disclaimer or anything silly like that.

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