ayan-b / jekyll-materialize-blog-theme

:rocket: Jekyll Wrapper on Jekyll minima theme using Material Design! Inspired by https://blog.google

Blog

A jekyll site.

This is a wrapper on the jekyll minima theme. You can use it by cloning the repo.

Usage

Make sure you have jekyll and minima installed. Then, clone the repo and put it on top of current file structure of jekyll.

Features

• Adding posts in different sections: One can add posts in two different sections, namely Infocus and Top Posts. In order to do that simply add infocus or top_posts inside your post content front matter under categories (example).

• Tags: You can add tags to all posts. In order to do that, simply add the tag in the front matter of your post (example). Once, the tag has been added make sure you have a markdown file of same name inside the tag directory.

• Intro Pic: You can also add a picture for your post and it will be shown on the top of your post and in the home page. Simply add the link of the picture in the front matter.

• Related Posts: If you set related-post as true, some posts will be mentioned at the bottom of your post by matching the tags.

• Recommended Posts: You can add recommended-posts for your blog post in hyperlink format (example).

• Social Share: All of your posts can be shared in social media sites easily via the social buttons provided. Currently supported sites are: FaceBook, Twitter, Google Plus, Reddit and LinkedIn.

To Do

• Remove Jekyll Minima dependency
• Release as a gem.

Contributing

Want to contribute? Awesome! Please have a look at our Contributing page.

jekyll-materialize-blog-theme's Issues

exp 1

Suggestions

Suggest any feature or bug. Also, you can skip this step and create an issue without posting anything here.

Add feature to hide posts from home

Update footer of home page.

This blog should have its footer aligned as center. Also, there is no need for All tags (at footer) it should be mentioned in the home page itself. Start hacking...!

Improve the README

Make sure you add your name to the Contributors section.

Use CDN if in production

Related files: https://github.com/ayan-b/blog/blob/master/_includes/header.html
https://github.com/ayan-b/blog/blob/master/_includes/footer.html

exp2

Add disqus

Change absolute links to relative links

Add mathjax support