diff --git a/_posts/2019-02-13-introducing-reverie-jekyll-theme.md b/_posts/2019-02-13-introducing-reverie-jekyll-theme.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8b1075d..0000000 --- a/_posts/2019-02-13-introducing-reverie-jekyll-theme.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,87 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: Introducing Reverie - A ridiculously elegant Jekyll theme -categories: [Miscellaneous, Jekyll] ---- - -[Reverie](https://github.com/amitmerchant1990/reverie) is a [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/)-powered theme which is simple and opinionated. It's actually a fork of [jekyll-now](https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now) with some additional features and personal touches which I've implemented to suit my needs for my blog. - -This is a plug-and-play Jekyll theme which you can use on GitHub Pages without even setting up a local environment. - -![](/images/reverie-demo.png) - -## Features overview - -- Command-line free fork-first workflow, using GitHub.com to create, customize and post to your blog -- Fully responsive and mobile optimized base theme -- Sass/Coffeescript support using Jekyll 2.0 -- Free hosting on your GitHub Pages user site -- All the SEO goodies comes in-built -- Markdown blogging -- Syntax highlighting using Pygments - - [Dracula syntax theme](https://draculatheme.com/) included -- Disqus commenting -- Google Analytics integration -- Fuzzy search across blog posts -- Pagination of posts works out-of-the-box. -- Categorize posts out-of-the box -- RSS Feed -- In-built sitemap - -
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- -## Using Reverie on GitHub Pages - -### Step 1) Fork Reverie to your User Repository - -Fork [this repository](https://github.com/amitmerchant1990/reverie), then rename the repository to `yourgithubusername.github.io`. - -Alternatively, you can use [Use this template](https://github.com/amitmerchant1990/reverie/generate) button if you want to create a repository with a clean commit history which will use Reverie as a template. - -Your Jekyll blog will often be viewable immediately at (if it's not, you can often force it to build by completing step 2) - -### Step 2) Customize and view your site - -Enter your site name, description, avatar and many other options by editing the `_config.yml` file. You can easily turn on Google Analytics tracking, Disqus commenting and social icons here. - -Making a change to `_config.yml` (or any file in your repository) will force GitHub Pages to rebuild your site with jekyll. Your rebuilt site will be viewable a few seconds later at - if not, give it ten minutes as GitHub suggests and it'll appear soon. - -### Step 3) Publish your first blog post - -Create a new file called `/_posts/2019-2-13-Hello-World.md` to publish your first blog post. That's all you need to do to publish your first blog post! This [Markdown Cheatsheet](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet) might come in handy while writing the posts. - -> You can add additional posts in the browser on GitHub.com too! Just hit the Create new file button in `/_posts/` to create new content. Just make sure to include the [front-matter](http://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/) block at the top of each new blog post and make sure the post's filename is in this format: year-month-day-title.md - -## Using Categories in Reverie - -You can categorize your content based on `categories` in Reverie. For this, you just need to add `categories` in front matter like below: - -For adding single category: - -```md -categories: JavaScript -``` - -For adding multiple categories: - -```md -categories: [PHP, Laravel] -``` - -The contegorized content can be shown over this URL: - -## RSS - -The generated [RSS feed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) of your blog can be found at . You can see the example RSS feed over [here](https://www.amitmerchant.com/reverie/feed). - -## Sitemap - -The generated sitemap of your blog can be found at . You can see the example sitemap feed over [here](https://www.amitmerchant.com/reverie/sitemap). - -## License - -MIT - -