barryclark/jekyll-now
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
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Jekyll is a static site generator that's perfect for GitHub hosted blogs (Jekyll Repository) Jekyll Now makes it easier to create your Jekyll blog, by eliminating a lot of the up front setup. In a few minutes you'll be set up with a minimal, responsive blog like the one below giving you more time to spend on writing epic blog posts! Fork this repo, then rename the repository to yourgithubusername.github.io. Your Jekyll blog will often be viewable immediately at (if it's not, you can often force it to build by completing step 2) 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 too. 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…
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- Jekyll Now
- Quick Start
- Step 1) Fork Jekyll Now to your User Repository
- Step 2) Customize and view your site
- Step 3) Publish your first blog post
- Local Development
- Moar!
- Jekyll Now Features
- Questions?
- Other forkable themes
- Credits
- Contributing
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What this repository does
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Repository facts
- Owner
- barryclark
- Primary language
- CSS
- Stars
- 8,401
- Forks
- 34,680
- Open issues + pull requests
- 390
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2014-02-07T00:14:55.000Z
- Last push
- 2024-08-19T16:05:35.000Z
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