Jekyll Theme Chirpy

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A minimal, portfolio, sidebar, bootstrap Jekyll theme with responsive web design and focuses on text exhibition. It will help you easily record, manage and share your knowledge and experience.

You will get the following features:

Auto Dark Mode
Posts' Last Modified Date
Table of Contents
Recommand Related Post Automatically
Disqus Comments
Syntax highlighting
Two Level Categories
Search
HTML Compress
Atom Feeds
Google Analytics
GA Pageviews (Advanced)
SEO Tag
Performance Optimization

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Getting Started
Usage
Credits
Sponsor
Documentation
License

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Follow the Jekyll Docs to complete the installtion of basic environment (Ruby, RubyGem, Bundler and Jekyll). In addition, to use the useful script tools, we also need to install Python(version 3.5 or abover) and ruamel.yaml.

Installing

Fork Chirpy from GitHub, then clone your forked repo to local:

$ git clone git@github.com:USER/jekyll-theme-chirpy.git

replace the USER above to your GitHub username.

The first time you run or build the project on your machine, perform the installation of Jekyll plugins. Go to the root of repo and run:

$ bundle install

bundle will automatically install all the dependent Jekyll Plugins that listed in the Gemfile.

Usage

Directory Structure

The main files and related brief introductions are listed below.

jekyll-theme-chirpy/
├── _data
├── _includes      
├── _layouts
├── _posts          # posts stay here
├── _scripts
│   └── travis      # CI stuff, remove it
├── .travis.yml     # remove this, too
├── .github         # remove it
├── assets      
├── tabs
│   └── about.md    # the ABOUT page
├── .gitignore
├── 404.html
├── Gemfile
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── _config.yml     # configuration file
├── tools           # script tools
├── docs
├── feed.xml
├── index.html
├── robots.txt
└── sitemap.xml

As mentioned above, some files or directories should be removed from your repo:

.travis.yml
.github
_scripts/travis

Customization

Basically, go to _config.yml and customize the variables as needed, some of them are typical options:

Avatar

avatar defines the source image location. The sample image is /assets/img/sample/avatar.jpg. It should be replaced by your own one. Notice that a huge image file will increase the load time of your site, so keep your avatar size as samll as possible(may be https://tinypng.com/ will help).
TimeZone

To ensure that the posts' release date matches the city you live in, please modify the field timezone correctly. A list of all available values can be found on TimezoneConverter or Wikipedia.

Run Locally

You may want to preview the site before publishing, so just run the script tool:

$ bash tools/run.sh

Open a modern brower and visit at http://localhost:4000.

Few days later, you may find that the file modification(e.g. edits to a post) does not refresh in real time by using run.sh. Don't worry, the advanced option -r (or --realtime) will solve this problem, but it requires fswatch to be installed on your machine. Type -h for more information.

Deploying to GitHub Pages

Before the deployment begins, ensure the url in file _config.yml has been set to https://<username>.github.io(or the custom domain, if you have. e.g. https://yourdomain.com).

Option 1: Built by GitHub Pages

By deploying the site in this way, you're allowed to push the source code directly to the remote.

Note: If you want to use any third-party Jekyll plugins that not in this list, stop reading the current approach and go to Option 2: Build locally.

1. Rename the repository to:

Site Type	Repo's Name
User or Organization	`<username>.github.io`
Project	any one except `<username>.github.io`, let's say `project`

2. Commit the changes of the repo first, then run the initialization script:

$ bash tools/init.sh

Note: The Recent Update requires the posts' latest git-log date, so make sure the changes in _posts have been committed before running this command.

it will automatically generates the Latest Modified Date and Categories / Tags page for the posts.

3. Push the changes to origin/master then go to GitHub website and enable GitHub Pages service for the repo.

4. Check it out:

Site Type	Site URL
User or Organization	`https://<username>.github.io/`
Project	`https://<username>.github.io/project/`

Option 2: Build Locally

For security reasons, GitHub Pages runs on safe mode, which means the third-party Jekyll plugins or custom scripts won't work. If you want to use any another plugins that not in the whitelist, you have to generate the site locally rather than on GitHub Pages.

1. Browse to GitHub website, create a brand new repo named:

Site Type	Repo's Name
User or Organization	`<username>.github.io`
Project	any one except `<username>.github.io`, let's say `project`

and clone it.

2. In the root of the source project, build your site by:

$ bash tools/build.sh -d /path/to/local/project/

If you prefer to the Project site, change baseurl of file _config.yml to your project name, starting with a slash. e.g. /project. Or, simply add argument -b /project behide the command above.

The generated static files will be placed in the root of /path/to/local/project. Commit and push the changes to the master branch on GitHub.

3. Go to GitHub website and enable Pages service for the new repository.

4. Visit at:

Site Type	Site URL
User or Organization	`https://<username>.github.io/`
Project	`https://<username>.github.io/project/`

and enjoy!

Credits

Built With

Contributors

🎉Thanks to the following developers for contributing to this project:

Jatin Sanghvi

Sponsor

Want to buy me a coffee? Click the button ❤️Sponsor at the top of the Home Page and choose a link that suits you to donate. I'd really appreciate it and take it as encouragement to work on better projects.

Documentation

For more details and the better reading experience, please check out the tutorial in Demo Site. In the meanwhile, a copy of the tutorial is also available on the Wiki.

License

This work is published under MIT License.

jixiaocan / jixiaocan.github.io