jekyll-theme-static-pages

a responsive jekyll theme that can be used by static sites and uses css-grid and works back to IE11.

right now it's used by about and giveaways sites

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem 'jekyll-theme-static-pages'

And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: jekyll-theme-static-pages

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-theme-static-pages

Usage

copy pages and includes from here to your repo if you need to customize them

set up the following optional configuration variables in _config.yml:

if you want Google Analytics add this to _config.yml:

google-analytics:
  include: true
  id: <ga-id-goes-here>

custom css and js

you can add it in the front matter like this:

custom_js:
- test
custom_css:
- test

it will look in the asstes folder for test.js and test.css. you can have multiple files if you are so inclinded.

Development

To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install.

Your theme is setup just like a normal Jekyll site! To test your theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve and open your browser at http://localhost:4000. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.

When your theme is released, only the files in _layouts, _includes, _sass and assets tracked with Git will be bundled.