Add a new post in _posts/
directory with proper name format (as shown in placeholder posts)
Commit and push to master
Edit the _config.yml
file and set the following variables:
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
. Default baseurl
is /
. Any other baseurl can be setup like baseurl: /hacker-blog
, which makes the site available at http://domain.name/hacker-blog
.
Additionally, you may choose to set the following optional variables:
google_analytics: [Your Google Analytics tracking ID]
Edit about.md
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
and use it. Then add @import "custom";
to css/main.scss
404 page
Edit 404.md
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