rubel-hossain / jekyll-theme-plus

Plus is an advanced Jekyll theme https://jekyll.plus/

Desk is a premium knowledge base and faq Jekyll theme

Desk was developed by Ivan Chromjak for jekyll.plus, theme live demo available.

Features

• Contact form
• Live Search
• Responsive videos
• Image lightbox
• Google maps
• Contact form (FormSpree)
• Pre-built pages
• Disqus comments for posts
• Configurable home page header images
• Optimised for GitHub pages
• RSS feed
• SEO tags
• Google Analytics

Installation

Install the dependencies with Bundler:

bundle install

Run the following to generate your site:

bundle exec jekyll serve

You can find more on Deployment Methods page on Jekyll website.

Setup

Site and author details

Add your site and author details in _config.yml:

# Site title and description
title:              Desk - Helpdesk Jekyll Theme
description:        Knowledge base Jekyll theme.

# Site base hostname & protocol, e.g. http://example.com
url:                "https://desk.jekyll.plus"

# Site logo, image or text
brand:
    image:          logo.png # e.g. logo.png, upload logo image file to /assets/img/ folder
    text:           Desk      # if the above "logo:" image variable  is not set, this text logo is displayed instead

# Author settings
author:
    name:           Jim Smith
    email:          [email protected]
    website:        http://somewebsite.com
    facebook:       https://www.facebook.com/
    flickr:         https://flickr.com/
    dribbble:       https://dribbble.com/
    github:         https://github.com/
    googleplus:     https://plus.google.com/
    instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/
    linkedin:       https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
    pinterest:      https://www.pinterest.com/
    twitter:        https://twitter.com/
    vimeo:          https://vimeo.com/
    youtube:        https://www.youtube.com/

# Social share buttons
github_username:    ivanchromjak

Navigation Bar

Set in the main navigation links in _data/navigation_header.yml:

- title: About
  url: /about/

Footer

Edit copyright notice in _config.yml:

footer:
    copyright:

Set in the navigation links in _data/navigation_footer.yml:

- title: About
  url: /about/

Enabling comments (via Disqus)

Optionally, if you have a Disqus account, you can tell Jekyll to use it to show a comments section below each post. To enable it, add the following lines to your Jekyll site:

disqus:
    shortname: my_disqus_shortname

You can find out more about Disqus' shortnames here.

Comments are enabled by default and will only appear in production, i.e., JEKYLL_ENV=production. If you don't want to display comments for a particular post you can disable them by adding comments: false to that post's YAML Front Matter.

Google Analytics

To enable Google Anaytics, add the following lines to your Jekyll site:

  google_analytics: UA-NNNNNNNN-N

Google Analytics will only appear in production, i.e., JEKYLL_ENV=production

Google Map

To display Google map on contact page, add the following in your page content, replacing latitude, longitude and zoom values:

{% include map.html latitude="40.6700" longitude="-73.9400" zoom="16" %}

Contact Form (via FormSpree)

Submit the form and confirm your email address at FormSpree. Then add the following lines to contact page YAML Front Matter, replacing the email address:

formspree:
    email: [email protected]
    redirect: /thanks/

Update favicon

You can find the current favicon (favicon.png) inside the theme /assets/img/ directory, just replace it with your new favicon.

Posts

To create a new post, you can create a new markdown file inside the _posts directory by following the recommended file naming format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP

Where YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers, and MARKUP is the file extension representing the format used in the file. For example, the following are examples of valid post filenames:

2011-12-31-new-years-eve-is-awesome.md
2012-09-12-how-to-write-a-blog.md

Post requires front matter, everything in between the first and second --- are part of the YAML Front Matter, and everything after the second --- will be rendered with Markdown and show up as “Content”. The following is a post file with different configurations you can add as example:

---
layout: post
title: How To Travel On Low Budget
---

You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run bundle exec jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

To keep things more organized, add post images to /assets/posts/ directory, and add theme images to /assets/img/ directory.

Adding images

To add an image to a post or page use the following codes: Local image from /assets/posts/ directory:

{% include image.html img="girl.jpg" alt="Alt for image" caption="Girl on a rock" %}

External wide image with lightbox:

{% include image.html img="https://source.unsplash.com/TT-ROxWj9nA.jpg" lightbox="true" alt="Alt for image" caption="Image in lightbox" %}

Adding table of contents

Add the following code at the top of the post:

#### Sections in this article
{:.no_toc}
* TOC
{:toc}

{:.no_toc} exludes #### Sections in this article title from indexing in table of contents

Responsive Videos

Embed local videos:

<video controls playsinline uk-video="automute: true">
    <source src="http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    <source src="http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.ogv" type="video/ogg">
</video>

Embed YouTube videos:

<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YE7VzlLtp-4?autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;playsinline=1" width="600" height="340" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen uk-responsive uk-video="automute: true"></iframe>

To create a draft post, create the post file under the _drafts directory, and you can find more information in Working with Drafts.

Home Page

To create a home page, just create a index.md file inside the root directory. The following is a YAML Front Matter example for a page:

---
layout: help
title: How Can We Help You?
subtitle: Self Help Support
hero:
    background: "#ffffff"   # background color, note setting a background image below will overlay the background color
    image: ocean.jpg        # local image e.g ocean.jpg from /assets/posts/ folder or remote e.g https://source.unsplash.com/ZeXP6p7agjE
    align: top              # header image alignment e.g. top, center or bottom
    text: dark              # text color e.g. dark or light
    search: true            # enable search
category:
    columns: 3              # number of category columns; 1, 2, 3, 4
featured:
    title: Featured Articles
    tag: featured           # tag used to populate featured section on home page
---

Home page category boxes are added in _data/navigation_categories.yml, e.g.:

- heading: Browse All Topics
  categories:
    - title: Getting Started
      desc: Get your account up and running in just few easy steps
      icon: settings

    - title: Account and Billing
      desc: Managing your account, creating new users and exporting data
      icon: credit-card

Faqs

To create a faq page, just create a new page inside the root directory and add the following code in content:

{% include faqs.html %}

Next create faq post entries in _faqs folder, similar to creating posts.

Customization

To modify the primary color, open /assets/css/main.scss and replace the #d40c3c color value:

// Primary template color
$global-primary-background: #d40c3c;

Further style customisation can be done in the following files:

/_sass/theme/mixins.scss
/_sass/theme/variables.scss
/assets/css/main.scss

Development

Install UIkit font end framework dependency via Npm:

npm install

Enable live browser reload with the following:

bundle exec jekyll s --livereload

Credits and Sources

• Google analytics https://www.google.com/analytics/
• Google maps https://www.google.com/maps
• UIkit front end framework https://getuikit.com/
• Unsplash images https://unsplash.com/
• Jekyll CML https://jekyllrb.com/

Support

Customer support is provided through our Envato profile page contact form for up to six months from the purchase date and is provided Monday to Friday during the business week. We aim to answer all support requests daily, most are handled within 48h.