The Hacker-Blog theme

Hacker-Blog is a minimalistic, responsive jekyll theme built for hackers. It is based on the hacker theme for project pages.

Demo: https://ashishchaudhary.in/hacker-blog

Included

1. Pagination
2. SEO tags
3. Archive Page
4. About Page
5. RSS (

   https://base-url/atom

   )
6. Sitemap (

   https://base-url/sitemap

   )
7. Google Analytics (optional)

Usage

1. Fork and Clone this repository
2. Customize your blog
3. Add a new post in

   _posts/

   directory with proper name format (as shown in placeholder posts)
4. Commit and push to master on a repository named
   .
5. Visit

   .github.io

Local Build

If you want to see the changes before pushing the blog to Github, do a local build.

1. gem install jekyll

2. gem install jekyll-seo-tag

3. gem install jekyll-paginate

4. gem install jekyll-sitemap

5. (

   cd

   to the blog directory, then:)

   jekyll serve --watch --port 8000

6. Go to

   http://0.0.0.0:8000/

   in your web browser.

Note: In case you have set a

baseurl

/

_config.yml

http://0.0.0.0:8000/BASEURL/

Local build using docker

docker run --rm -p 8000:8000 \
  --volume="LOCATION_OF_YOUR_JEKYLL_BLOG:/srv/jekyll" \
  -it tocttou/jekyll:3.5 \
  jekyll serve --watch --port 8000

Replace

LOCATION_OF_YOUR_JEKYLL_BLOG

http://localhost:8000/

Note: In case you have set a

baseurl

/

_config.yml

http://0.0.0.0:8000/BASEURL/

Customizing

Configuration variables

Edit the

_config.yml

title: [The title of your blog]
description: [A short description of your blog's purpose]
author:
  name: [Your name]
  email: [Your email address]
  url: [URL of your website]

baseurl: [The base url for this blog.]
paginate: [Number of posts in one paginated section (default: 3)]
owner: [Your name]
year: [Current Year]

Note: All links in the site are prepended with

baseurl

baseurl

/

baseurl: /hacker-blog

http://domain.name/hacker-blog

Additionally, you may choose to set the following optional variables:

google_analytics: [Your Google Analytics tracking ID]

About Page

Edit

about.md

Layout

If you would like to modify the site style:

HTML

Footer: Edit

_includes/footer.html

Header: Edit

_includes/header.html

Links in the header: Edit

_includes/links.html

Meta tags, blog title display, and additional CSS: Edit

_includes/head.html

Index page layout: Edit

_layouts/default.html

Post layout: Edit

_layouts/post.html

CSS

Site wide CSS: Edit

_sass/base.scss

Custom CSS: Make

_sass/custom.scss

@import "custom";

css/main.scss

404 page

Edit

404.md

License

CC0 1.0 Universal