jekyll-theme-mint

A clean and responsive jekyll theme. Designing for legibility and accessibility.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "jekyll-theme-mint"

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

theme: jekyll-theme-mint

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-theme-mint

Usage

Theme

Edit _config.yml file to change blog theme.

blog_theme: light  # use light theme

# or

blog_theme: dark # use dark theme

# or

blog_theme: auto # auto change the theme when your system and browser supported

Accent color of theme

Edit _config.yml file to change accent color of theme.

light-theme-accent-color: '#333'

dark-theme-accent-color: '#eee'

Add social links

Edit _config.yml file to add your social links.

github_username:    your_name
twitter_username:   your_name
facebook_username:  your_name
dribbble_username:  your_name

Customize date formate

Edit _config.yml file to change default date formate.

date_format: '%b %-d, %Y'

Enable Disqus

Edit _config.yml file to add your Disqus short name and you can enable Disqus on your site.

disqus_shortname: your_disqus_shortname

You can also disable Disqus on specific post by comments: false to the post's Front Matter.

Enable Google Analytics

Edit _config.yml file to add your google analytics tracking id and you can enable google analytics on your site.

google_analytics: your_google_analystics_tracker_id

Footer page

Normally, the links to the pages is displayed in the site header. If you want to display the page link on the footer, you can add this to the front matter of page.

is_footer: true

Development

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

For test, you can run bundle exec jekyll serve and open your browser at http://localhost:4000.

For more information you can see here https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/.

Build gem

$ gem build jekyll-theme-mint.gemspec 

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.