This is a minimalist generator blog for Github pages
Fork it on a gh-pages branch to host it on github
then, you can pull your new repository and run it
git clone ...
cd minimalist-blog && npm install && grunt serverAll your blog is in a conf.js files which contains all parameters of your blog
var blogConfig = {
"name":"Minimalist blog", //name of your blog
"description":"...", //description of your blog
"email": "YOUR_EMAIL",
"logo": "assets/gitblog.gif", //Your logo
"theme": "default", //your can make your own theme defined a new folder in app/templates/
"social": {
"disqus": "...", //set your disqus id if you want to enable comments
"twitter_account": "..." //set your twitter account if you want add some follow button,
"github": { // TODO: not used yet
"account": "thyb",
"repository": "minimalist-blog"
}
},
"authors": [
{
"username": "thyb",
"fullname": "Thibaud Arnault",
"email": "thyb@oauth.io",
"gravatar": "4bda4cba273a73659a518e5ab26fc1bb", //The gravatar ID
"job": "...",
"bio": "..."
}
],
"menu": [
{
"url": "#/",
"text": "Home"
},
{
"url": "#/pages/me", //You can link your menu to a custom page
"text": "About me"
}
//...
],
"sidebar": [
"tags.html", //include pages/tags.html in the first block
"forkme.html",
"follow.html"
//...
],
"sortArticle": "desc", //asc or desc : define the order to display
"limitPerPage": 5, //number of article displayed per page
"articles": [ //define all your article here
{
"id": "welcome-to-my-blog", //take the articles/welcome-to-my-blog.md file
"title": "Article title",
"summary": "...", //the summary you want to display on the front page
"img": { // TODO: not used yet
"src": "assets/yourImage.png", //title image url
"imgPosition": "center" //left right center
}
"date": "7-14-2013", //date of the post
"author": "thyb", //the author id
"format": "markdown", //can be `html̀` or `markdown`
"tags": ["my-tag1", "my-tag2"] //set tags
}
//...
]
}All your articles are in ̀articles/ folder. This will render a blog like this one: DEMO
Copyright 2013 Thibaud Arnault
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