🍉 – A Blog Theme for Jekyll

Melons is a blog theme for Jekyll, and is based on Trophy built using HTML, Sass, and JavaScript (no jQuery). External stylesheets and libraries included are Google Fonts, Font Awesome, Normalize.CSS, Rellax, and WOW.js.

Changelog

1.1.1
- bug fix
- subtitle
1.1
- seo
- gulp
1.0
- Multi author support
- Add author page
- Add reading time
- Improvements to UI/UX
- Add favicon
- Minified the HTML(Thanks Anatol Broder)

Screenshots

Home Page

Installation

All dependencies are saved in the Gemfile. Run bundle install (Install Bundler if it is not already) after cloning the repo.

Edit Theme

I made everything as easy as possible to edit. Most things can be found in the _config.yml, but if more editing is required digging through the code will be required. The head.html file is in the _includes folder and the Sass variables are found in the _base.scss file in the _sass folder.

_config.yml

Site Settings

email: 
baseurl: ""
paginate: 5
paginate_path: "/blog/page-:num"
google_analytics: UA—XXXXXXXX-X

email - Your email for the contact card and the footer
baseurl - Path of blog if adding this on to another website
paginate - Number of blog posts per page
paginate_path - URL structure of paginated pages
google_analytics - Option field to replace with correct Google Analytics code

SEO Settings

title: 
description: 
url: ""
twitter_username: 
default_img:

title - Title of blog
description - Description of blog (recommended to not go over 160 characters)
url - URL of main website
twitter_username - Twitter username
default_img - Image that will appear when posting links on social networks

Profile Settings

name: 
profile_img: 
profile: 
social:
  github:

name - Full name for SEO purposes
profile_img - Image for the profile card (size to 2000x1200px)
profile - Short description that will be in the profile card
social - List of social networks for icons in the contact card and the footer (Font Awesome is used, so only match the name of the icon, but do not include fa-)

Build Settings

exclude: ["_screenshots", "Gemfile", "Gemfile.lock", "LICENSE.txt", "README.md"]
permalink: /:year/:month/:day/:title/

exclude - Folders that are excluded from _site
permalink - URL structure of blog posts

_posts

---
layout: post
title: ""
date: 
categories:
description: 
image: 
image-sm:
---

This is the YAML front matter block for blog posts.

layout - This field will always be post
title - The title of the blog post
date - The date that will appear on the blog post
categories - Optional field that can be entered as an array or a list
description - Optional field for SEO (recommended to not go over 160 characters)
image - The blog theme was designed for 2000x1200px images (optimize your images because this is a picture heavy theme)
image-sm - Optional field for card layouts for image optimization and page speed (designed for 500x300px images)

License

Melons is licensed under the MIT License.

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