mediator

A medium inspired Jekyll blog theme. The basic idea came from the Ghost theme Readium 2.0. I use mediator on my own blog The Base.

Screenshots

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

Getting Started

Fork this repository
Clone it: git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USER/mediator
Install the GitHub Pages gem (includes Jekyll): bundle install
Install the Bourbon gem gem install bourbon
Run the jekyll server: jekyll serve

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

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)

Social

The template allows to add all major social plattforms to your site. Fill the the form for each plattform. 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 plattform (must match a name of font-awsome icon set )
url: url of your account
desc: slogan of the plattform
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.

Contact

I'd love to hear from you at @dirkfabisch. Feel free to open issues if you run into trouble or have suggestions. Pull Requests always welcome.

withoutclass / mediator