heioy / alinwrites.github.io

a simple blog for drabbles

Rain

Rain is a simple and clean Jekyll theme with focus on content. It's a fork of Tale theme with additional customizations.

Features

• Compatible with GitHub Pages
• Responsive design
• Syntax highlighting
• Markdown and HTML text formatting
• Pagination of posts
• Related articles section
• Links to social media

Getting Started

You will need to install Jekyll on your machine. Installation depends on your operating system and it is explained here.

Then create a new directory and clone this repository:

mkdir rain
cd rain
git clone https://github.com/inelaah/rain.git

Install all dependencies:

bundle install

Site Configuration

There is a configuration file _config.yml in root directory. You should overwrite it to fit to your needs.

An example of _config.yml looks like this:

# Site settings
title:          Rain
description:    "Rain is a simple and clean Jekyll theme with focus on content."
url:            https://github.com/inelaah/rain

# Author
author:
  name:         Inela Avdic Hukic
  email:        [email protected]
  url:          https://inelaah.com

# Build settings
markdown:       kramdown

# Assets
sass:
  sass_dir:     _sass
  style:        compressed

# Gems
plugins:
  - jekyll-feed
  - jekyll-paginate
  # - jemoji #Uncomment this to allow emoji in your post

# Permalinks
permalink:      /:year-:month-:day/:title
paginate:       5

# Related posts settings
related_posts_section:
  max_count:        5
  min_common_tags:  2

# Links to social media
social:
  email: [email protected]
  github: https://github.com/inelaah
  twitter: https://twitter.com
  linkedin: https://ba.linkedin.com/in/inela-avdic-hukic-322354131

Favicons

It is recommended to put your own favicons:

• apple-touch-icon.png (180x180)
• favicon-32x32.png (32x32)
• favicon-16x16.png (16x16)
• mstile-150x150.png (150x150)
• android-chrome-192x192.png (192x192)
• android-chrome-512x512.png (512x512)

in /assets directory. They're easily created via Favicon Generator.

Related Articles

Related articles section is based on article tags. For every post that you want to have this section you should define tags. To include related articles in the bottom of the content you should define related_posts_section property in configuration file. It contains two fields: max_count and min_common_tags:

• max_count represents the maximum number of related articles shown on a single article.
• min_common_tags represents the minimum number of common tags for two articles to become related articles.

Links to social media

To include links to social media in the top right corner of your page you need to define social property. It contains email, GitHub, Twitter and LinkedIn fields. You can leave out any of these if you don't want them to show up on your page.

Customizing Rain theme

If you want to customize Rain theme you can fork this project and make some changes. If you just want to change the style then you can find Sass files in _sass/rain directory.

Adding your own posts

You can see an example of post structure in _posts directory. After you clone this project you should clean the _posts directory and add your own posts.

Build and serve

bundle exec jekyll serve

Head over to http://127.0.0.1:4000/ to see your page.

License

Rain is licensed under the MIT license. Check the LICENSE file for details.

Author

Inela Avdic Hukic