It's Jekyllicious!!

Tips and tricks for blogging with Jekyll

What is Jekyll?

A 60 second introduction

Jekyll is a static site generator built with Ruby.

Documentation

Static vs. CMS

What does Static mean?

Jekyll vs. HTML + CSS

Sites built with Jekyll

Github Services

8th Light Blog

Healthcare.gov

(Don't blame Jekyll!)

I have a Jekyll site... now what?

YAML
Ain't A

Markup

Language

YAML Front Matter

Liquid Tags

layout: post
title: I Love My Cat
description: A post about my cat
related: ["My Eight Cats and I", "Kittens!!"]
categories: jellybeans, kittens

{{ page.title }}
# => I Love My Cat

{{ page.description }}
# => A post about my cat

{% for post in site.posts %}
   {% if page.related contains post.title %}
       # display post link
   {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

Custom Post Types

We can use YAML and liquid tags to create custom post types.

Add a new file to _layouts

Add code to customize layout

Customize front matter

Result:

Social Media Sharing

---
layout: post
title: "It's Jekyllicious!"
description: Tips and Tricks for Blogging with Jekyll
date: 2016-6-03
twitter_text: "It's Jekyllicious!!"
---

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text="{{ page.twitter_text }}
"%20{{ site.url }}{{ page.url }}%20via%20@{{ site.twitter_username }}

Other ideas:

Tags or attributes

style changes

Lists of data

Linking to custom CSS or JS Files

Gems

Do i need a gemfile?

Gems can be included in a Gemfile or installed individually. If you have a lot of customizations, or want to make it easy for others to clone your site, definitely use a Gemfile.

Popular Gems

Jekyll-paginate

jekyll-haml

pygments

jekyll-sitemap

3rd Party Plugins

Comments

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