This is technically not a fork anymore.
Enter your site name, description, avatar and many other options by editing the _config.yml file. You can easily turn on Google Analytics tracking, Disqus commenting and social icons here too.
Making a change to _config.yml (or any file in your repository) will force GitHub Pages to rebuild your site with jekyll. Your rebuilt site will be viewable a few seconds later at http://yourgithubusername.github.io - if not, give it ten minutes as GitHub suggests and it'll appear soon
There are 3 different ways that you can make changes to your blog's files:
- Edit files within your new username.github.io repository in the browser at GitHub.com (shown below).
- Use a third party GitHub content editor, like Prose by Development Seed. It's optimized for use with Jekyll making markdown editing, writing drafts, and uploading images really easy.
- Clone down your repository and make updates locally, then push them to your GitHub repository.
✓ Command-line free fork-first workflow, using GitHub.com to create, customize and post to your blog
✓ Fully responsive and mobile optimized base theme (Theme Demo)
✓ Sass/Coffeescript support using Jekyll 2.0
✓ Free hosting on your GitHub Pages user site
✓ Markdown blogging
✓ Syntax highlighting
✓ Disqus commenting
✓ Google Analytics integration
✓ SVG social icons for your footer
✓ 3 http requests, including your avatar
✘ No installing dependancies
✘ No need to set up local development
✘ No configuring plugins
✘ No need to spend time on theming
✘ More time to code other things ... wait ✓!
- Jekyll - Thanks to its creators, contributors and maintainers.
- SVG icons - Thanks, Neil Orange Peel. They're beautiful.
Install nvm (node version mananger)
install node.js
install npm (package manager)
install grunt with
'npm install -g grunt-cli'
Use this guide for an existing project: Existing Grunt project
Ruby
Downgraded to ruby 2.7.2 because of persistent errors with 3.0.
As of October 20, 2016
- check twitter feed and rss feed
- move fb og into production, change app_id in Yaml
- fixed fb scrape, now need to improve og tags
- supply a favicon.ico or favicon in a rel link