The Pocket theme for Jekyll

Pocket is a plain theme that uses no javascript or web fonts and loads just one plugin.

Installation

As a Ruby gem

Pocket is available as a Ruby gem. Assuming you have Ruby, Bundler and Jekyll installed, follow these steps:

• Open a command line
• Create a new Jekyll website by navigating to the folder you want to store it in
• From the command line enter jekyll new my-website-folder-name
• Jekyll will create a new site
• Open the _config.yml file
• Edit the theme: minima line. Replace minima with pocket-theme
• Open the Gemfile file
• Add this line: gem "pocket-theme", "~> 0.4.4"
• Go to the command line and enter cd my-website-folder-name
• Enter bundle update
• Test the site works by entering bundle exec jekyll s
• Open a browser and visit localhost:4000
• The Pocket theme should open

Download from Github

Assuming you have Ruby, Bundler, Git and Jekyll installed, follow these steps:

• Open a command line
• Navigate to the folder you want to store the website in
• Enter git clone https://github.com/leonp/pocket-theme.git
• Navigate to the pocket-theme folder
• Enter bundle exec jekyll s
• Open a browser and visit localhost:4000
• The Pocket theme should open

Site variables

You can add variables to your _config.yml file:

• title (e.g. title: The Pocket theme for Jekyll), displayed at the top of every page and in the browser title bar
• description (e.g. description: "A shortish sentence or two that will be displayed at the bottom of every page.")
• lang (e.g. lang: en), used in the HTML element to define the main language of your blog
• url (e.g. url: https://leonpaternoster.com), the full address of your website

The intro variable

Pages or posts accept an intro variable. Intros are displayed below the page/post title in a slightly larger font. They serve as a summary of the page/post.