Coinsence blog

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Running
• Usage
  • Posting
  • Configuration
• Deployment

This the official repo for the coinsence blog, it will be hosted on blog.coinsence.org . This blog is built with Jekyll and Mediumish template for Jekyll.

Installation

Jekyll is a Ruby Gem that can be installed on most systems.

Requirements

Requirements are as described on the Jekyll installation docs: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/#requirements

• Git
• Ruby
• RubyGems
• GCC and Make

You can follow installation guide as prescribed in offical docs: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/#guides

Running

After making sure all the requirements are set, then you should be able to run your Jekyll site:

1. git clone https://github.com/Coinsence/coinsence.github.io.git
2. cd coinsence.github.io
3. bundle
4. jekyll serve --watch or bundle exec jekyll serve
5. Some YAML post settings:
   • post image - image: assets/images/mypic.jpg
   • external post image - image: "https://externalwebsite.com/image4.jpg"
   • page comments - comments:true
   • meta description (optional) - description: "this is my meta description"

Usage

Posting

You can start adding your .md files in _posts folder.

Some YAML post settings

• post image - image: assets/images/mypic.jpg
• external post image - image: "https://externalwebsite.com/image4.jpg"
• page comments - comments:true
• meta description (optional) - description: "this is my meta description"

YAML Post Example

---
layout: post
title:  "We all wait for summer"
author: john
categories: [ Jekyll, tutorial ]
image: assets/images/5.jpg
description: "Something about this post here"
rating: 4.5
---

POST CONTENT HERE...

Configuration

You can start configuring the site by modifying the _config.yml file.

Authors

You can add authors in the authors section on the aftermentioned file above. An example below:

sal:
    name: Sal
    display_name: Sal
    gravatar: e56154546cf4be74e393c62d1ae9f9d4
    email: [email protected]
    web: https://www.wowthemes.net
    twitter: https://twitter.com/wowthemesnet
    description: "Author of Mediumish, a Bootstrap Medium styled template available for WordPress, HTML, Ghost and Jekyll. You are currently previewing Jekyll template demo."

Deployment

As Github already supports running Jekyll templates directly without compiling, you can push your modified code and/or newely added posts/pages, and github will take care of the rest! You can learn more about that here.

So just commit, push and profit! 😎 ✌️