Github Pages And Jekyll
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This blog post is dedicated to detailing the process of how to create a similar github page like this using jekyll and all other goodies.
What is github pages and jekyll
GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that takes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files straight from a repository on GitHub, optionally runs the files through a build process, and publishes a website.
Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator for personal, project, or organization sites. Written in Ruby by Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub’s co-founder, it is distributed under the open source MIT license.
Download and install ruby and jekyll
- https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/windows/
- https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
Github pages themes
Github provides you with a variety of themes to start you pages with.
This site makes use of The Hacker theme as its base. Thank you to the contributors of that theme project for creating something beautiful and simple.
Jekyll Plugins
- Jekyll Twitter Plugin Repo
jekyll-twitter-plugin is a Liquid tag plugin for Jekyll that enables Twitter content to be used in any pages generated by Jekyll. Content is fetched from the Twitter Publish platform.