Use Minimal-blog
22 Aug 2017The minimal-blog is really a minimal blog template and very easy to use. If you host your blog on GitHub, you can just fork my repository, after a few setting steps, your blog will come into alive on GitHub.
This post helps you to get started:
Change the basic information of your site
Jekyll saves configuration information in the file _config.yml. So just open this file with your favoiate text editor, change
the title, tagline to your blog’s. Of course, you can control other behaviors by changes attributes， such as permalink, paginate.
Create your first new post
In order to write a new post, you need to create files in the folder _posts. Files in Jekyll post folder should named according to
the following convention:
YYYY-MM-DD-filename.md
Where YYYY is a fout-digit year, MM and DD are two-digit month and day respectively.
Every post file should start with the frontmatter, which tells Jekyll which layout to use, what is
the title of this post, the category, the tag and so on. For the minimal-blog template, it looks like:
---
layout: post
title: Use Minimal-blog
category: Post
---
Add google Analytics or AdSense
Firstly, you should have a google analytics account and create a new property for your new site. Then copy your tracking code into the file:
/_includes/google-analytics.html
That’s it. Really easy. For google Adsense, it is almost the same. The only difference is that your copy your google AdSense code into the file:
/_includes/google-adsense.html
Change the link list to other websites
In the sidebar, your will find a link section, where there are some links to other website. If you want to modify the list, go to file ‘/data/links.yml’, add a item like:
- title: Jekyll Template GitHub
url: https://github.com/runningUnicorn/minimal-blog
Where title is the name showed in the list, url is the website address you want to link to.
Have fun with Jekyll!