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Awesome Jekyll

A collection of awesome Jekyll goodies (tools, templates, themes, plugins, guides, etc.)

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Jekyll Headquarters (HQ)

Simple, blog-aware static website generator - the world's most popular website compiler - publish blogs, books, radio talk shows, talk slides and much more

• Jekyll (web: jekyllrb.com, github: jekyll, gem: jekyll)
  • Official News & Updates - what's news?
    • Follow Core Developers
      • Ben Balter @ GitHub Inc. (github: benbalter, web: ben.balter.com, twitter: benbalter)
      • Parker Moore @ GitHub Inc. (github: parkr, web: byparker.com, twitter: parkr)
      • Jordon Bedwell (github: envygeeks, web: envygeeks.io, twitter: envygeeks)
  • Official Talk Forum - discuss all things Jekyll

News

• Planet Jekyll (twitter: planetjekyll) -- For news about Jekyll 'n' friends (e.g. new themes, new plugins, new conferences 'n' meetups, etc.) follow @planetjekyll on Twitter

• Jekyll Weekly Newsletter (web: jekyllweekly.com, github: jekyllweekly) by Brad West

Showcase

The world's greatest static websites

• Jekyll Static Site Showcase @ Planet Jekyll (web: planetjekyll.github.io/showcase) - Bootstrap, Polymer, The Open Data Handbook, Stack Exchange Blog, and many more; all sites with sources

F.A.Q.s

• Jekyll F.A.Q.s @ Planet Jekyll (github: planetjekyll/quickrefs/FAQ.md) -- Frequently Asked Questions & Answers

Quick References / Cheat Sheets

• Jekyll Quick Reference (Cheat Sheet) @ Planet Jekyll (github: planetjekyll/quickrefs/JEKYLL.md)
• Jekyll Cheat Sheet @ Jekyll Tips (web: cheat.jekyll.tips)
• Jekyll Cheat Sheet @ Devhints.io (web: devhints.io/jekyll, github: rstacruz/cheatsheets/jekyll.md) - by Rico Sta. Cruz

Books

• Hyde Press Bookshelf (web: hydepress.github.io, twitter: hydepress) -- Free (Online) Books about Jekyll and friends
  • The Free Jekyll Book - the (Official) Jekyll doc reformatted as a single-page black-n-white online book (work-in-progress)
  • The Free Jekyll Plugins & Tools Book - READMEs for Jekyll plugins & tools reformatted as a single-page black-n-white online book (work-in-progress)
  • and many more

Conferences

Online - World Wide - Intertubes

• JekyllConf (web: jekyllconf.com, twitter: jekyllconf) -- online global conference for all things Jekyll; best practices, case studies, the future of jekyll and more
  • 2016 @ Intertubes; Saturday May/7th (FREE) - #2
  • 2015 @ Intertubes; Saturday May/2nd (FREE) - #1

Articles

Jekyll Tips (web: CloudCannon Academy (formally known as jekyll.tips), github: CloudCannon/Academy)

• Getting Started Guide
• And many more

Various

• CloudCanon CMS for Jekyll: Building a Multilingual Site by Jean-Sebastien Tremblay; Snipcart; Sep 2017
• Achieving 100 / 100 on Google PageSpeed Insights (using Jekyll) by Andy Smart; March 2016
• Goodbye Medium, Hello Jekyll by Jared White; March 2016
• How I'm Using Jekyll in 2016 by Michael Rose; February 2016
• How I'm Using Jekyll in 2017 by Michael Rose; August 2017
• How to Create an Open Source Directory on GitHub Pages by David Darnes; March 2016
• Why I left Blogger for Jekyll by Fred; March 2016
• Consider Jekyll: why I use Jekyll to publish on the web and why you might be interested by Oliver Pattison; March 2016
• How We Built Our Blog (with Jekyll) by Jon Chan; StackExchange Inc.; July 2015
• Building a blog using Jekyll by Jeremias Menichelli
  • Install and quick setup July 2015
  • Creating custom layouts July 2015
  • Writing posts and presenting them; Aug 2015
• A Fast Blogging Solution: Building a Simple Jekyll Blog by PJ Hagerty; EngineYard Inc.; Feb 2015
• Building Static Sites with Jekyll by Andrew Burgess; tuts+; Oct 2011
• Using Jekyll and GitHub Pages for Our Site by Young Hahn; Development Seed; Sep 2011

SitePoint

• Set Up a Jekyll Blog in 5 Minutes with Poole by Vikas Lalwani; June 2015
• Jekyll on Rails by Jesse Herrick; Apr 2015
• Static Blogging Tool Face-Off: Middleman vs Jekyll by David Turnbull; Feb 2015
• Blogging: WordPress or Jekyll by Hugo Giraudel; Nov 2014
• Getting Started with Jekyll Collections by Taylor Jones; Oct 2014
• Zero to Jekyll in 20 minutes by Jonathan Jackson; Apr 2012
• More Jekyll Articles @ SitePoint

Jekyll From Scratch Series by Mike Greiling (PixelCog; Minneapolis, MN)

• Getting Started; Jul 2013
• Core Architecture; Jul 2013
• Extending Jekyll; Jul 2013
• PixelCog.com Site (github: pixelcog/pixelcog.github.io)

Screencasts

• Jekyll Casts by Mike Neumegen (CloudCannon); FREE
  • #1 - Introduction to Collections -- Learn how to use collections to manage and organize related content
  • #2 - Front matter -- Use front matter to set variables on your page
  • #3 - Layouts -- Use Jekyll layouts to reduce repetition on your site
  • #4 - Includes -- Jekyll includes let you include page fragments on your site
  • #5 - Introduction to Liquid -- Introduction to using Liquid in Jekyll static site generator
  • #6 - Control Flow Statements in Liquid -- Use liquid to control which content is displayed on the page
  • #7 - Looping in Liquid -- Control how liquid loops over your content
  • #8 - String Filters in Liquid -- Modify string variables in liquid
  • and many more

Bookmarks

• Jekyll Bookmarks @ The New Dynamic by Bud Parr

Themes / Templates

See the Jekyll Theme Directory @ Dr. Jekyll's ».

More:

• Michael Rose (Made Mistakes) Jekyll Themes -- Skinny Bones, Minimal Mistakes, So Simple, HiPSTeR, etc.
• Henry's Jekyll Themes -- Boom!, Classics Book, Starter, Starter V2, Minimalistic, etc.
• Poole's Jekyll Themes by Mark Otto -- Poole, Lanyon, Hyde
  
• The Zen of Book Designs -- One Book, Many Designs
• The Zen of Page Designs -- One Page, Many Designs
• Slide Show (S9) Templates -- Slide Show / Presentation Templates e.g. S6 Blank, deck.js, impress.js, etc.

Theme Package Manager and Wizards

• drj / drjekyll (github: drjekyllthemes/drjekyll, gem: drjekyll) -- the missing static site theme package manager
• mrh / mrhyde (github: mrhydescripts/mrhyde, gem: mrhyde-tools) -- static site quick starter script wizard
  • mrhyde wizard scripts -- automate, automate, automate
• slush gh-pages / GitHub Pages Generator (github: ronik-design/slush-gh-pages, npm: slush-gh-pages) -- boilerplate wizard with CSS framework selection and extensive Node.js-based tooling. Specifically intended for use with GitHub Pages.

Applications

• JKAN - Light-Weight Open Data Catalog (CKAN Clone) (web: jkan.io, github: timwis/jkan) by Tim Wisniewski et al; incl. w/ admin pages w/ auth (logins)

  • Q&A w/ Tim Wisniewski (U.S. Open Data); March 2016

• Federalist (web: federalist.18f.gov, github: 18F/federalist) by 18F (a US government agency part of General Services Administration); a web app for publishing static government websites (w/ Jekyll)

Plugins / Extensions

See the Awesome Jekyll Plugins List (github: planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-plugins) ».

Snippets / Recipes

• Jekyll Snippets @ Planet Jekyll (github: planetjekyll/snippets)
• Jekyll Snippets/CheatSheet Page @ CloudCannon Academy (formally Jekyll Tips)

Tips / Tricks

Articles

• Jekyll and AngularJS by Jesse Herrick; May 2015

Liquid Template Language

• Liquid (github: Shopify/liquid, gem: liquid)
  • Version History / Change Log

Docs @ Liquid Wiki

• Liquid for Designers
  • Output ({{ }})
    • Advanced output: Filters • Standard Filters
  • Tags ({% %})
    • Comments • Raw • If / Else • Case Statement • Cycle • For loops • Variable Assignment
• Liquid for Programmers
  • Create your own filters
  • Create your own tags
  • Create your own tag blocks

Docs @ Shopify

• Liquid Basics

Markdown

Modern hypertext markup in easy-to-read and easy-to-write ye olde plain vanilla text

See the Awesome Markdown List @ Write Kit (github: writekit/awesome-markdown) ».

News

• Manuscripts News (twitter: manuscriptsnews) -- For news about writing in Markdown 'n' friends (e.g. tools, tips & trips, etc.) follow @manuscriptsnews on Twitter.

Command Line Tools

• jcli.sh (github: StefanKrauth/shell-scripts/jcli.sh) by Stefan Krauth - Jekyll Bash Command Line Interface
• jbh.sh (github: alanbarber/jbh) by Alan Barber - Jekyll Blog Helper
• jtasks (github: pavdmyt/jtasks) by Pavel Dmytrenko - simple, but powerful, interface to run both common and advanced routines in Jekyll projects
• Jekyll Starter Kit - A Jekyll Progressive Web App yeoman generator.
• Generator Jekyll Plugin by Jam Risser - 💎 Yeoman generator for jekyll plugins

"Visual" Editors n Tools

See the Awesome Jekyll Editors List (github: planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-editors) ».

Octopress Headquarters (HQ)

Jekyll's Ferrari - obsessively designed toolkit for writing and deploying jekyll blogs

• Octopress (web: octopress.org, github: octopress, gem: octopress) - by Brandon Mathis et al

Publish / Upload / Deploy / Sync

Articles

• How to automatically deploy static web site to the hosting by Vitaly Repin; Jul 2015
  • Step 1: Install rrsync to your home folder (server-side)
  • Step 2: Setup certificate-based ssh access (server side)
  • Step 3: Rsync! (client-side)
  • Optional step 4: exclude transfer.sh from being copied to the output folder by Jekyll
• Deploy Jekyll sites to S3 using Travis CI
• Deploy Jekyll sites anywhere using jekyll-hook

GitHub Pages Headquarters (HQ)

Websites for you and your projects

• GitHub Pages (web: pages.github.com, github: github/pages-gem, gem: github-pages)
  • Dependency Versions (version.json) - shows current versions (e.g. jekyll, liquid, kramdown, etc.) in use for GitHub Pages
• GitHub Pages Starter Pack: Extended Resources

Official Doc / Help Pages

• GitHub Pages Basics
  • Using Jekyll with GitHub Pages
  • and many more
• Customizing GitHub Pages
  • Using Jekyll as a static site generator with GitHub Pages
  • Troubleshooting Jekyll builds
  • Adding Jekyll plugins to a GitHub Pages site
  • Using a custom domain with GitHub pages
  • Additional customizations for GitHub Pages
  • and many more
• GitHub Pages Troubleshooting
  • Unpublishing a Project Pages site
  • and many more

Milestones / History

2016:

• April 2016 +++ A look behind our decision to standardize on a single Markdown engine for GitHub Pages
• March 2016 +++ Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown
• Feb 2016 +++ GitHub Pages now faster and simpler with Jekyll 3.0

2015:

• Sept 2015 +++ Easier feeds for GitHub Pages
• May 2015 +++ Releases metadata for GitHub Pages
• Apr 2015 +++ Eight lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months
• Jan 2015 +++ How GitHub uses GitHub to document GitHub

2014:

• Jul 2014 +++ GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 2.2.0
• May 2014 +++ GitHub Pages <3
• Mar 2014 +++ Repository metadata and plugin support for GitHub Pages

2013:

• Sep 2013 +++ Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents
• Aug 2013 +++ Cutting the GitHub Pages Gem
• May 2013 +++ Jekyll Turns 1.0
• Apr 2013 +++ New GitHub Pages domain: github.io
• Jan 2013 +++ GitHub Pages updated to Jekyll 0.12.0

2012:

• Jun 2012 +++ GitHub Pages Update
• Apr 2012 +++ Instantly Beautiful Project Pages

2009:

• Apr 2009 +++ Pages 2.0
• Apr 2009 +++ GitHub Pages Upgraded to Jekyll 0.5.0

2008:

• Dec 2008 +++ GitHub Pages

GitLab Pages Headquarters (HQ)

Websites for you and your projects

• GitLab Pages (web: pages.gitlab.io)
  • Official Documentation
  • Example Jekyll Site (gitlab: pages/jekyll) -- example jekyll site using GitLab Pages

WordPress Migration / Import / Export / Templates

• WordPress Jekyll Exporter (wordpress: plugins/jekyll-exporter, github: benbalter/wordpress-to-jekyll-exporter) by Ben Balter -- export your WordPress blog to jekyll with one click
• WordPress <--> GitHub Sync (wordpress: plugins/wp-github-sync, github: mAAdhaTTah/wordpress-github-sync) by James DiGioia, Ben Balter et al -- sync content with a GitHub repository (or Jekyll site)
• WordPress Theme <=> Jekyll Template Cheat Sheet @ Planet Jekyll (github: planetjekyll/quickrefs/WORDPRESS.md)
• Wordpress2Jekyll (wordpress: plugins/wp2jekyll) -- a Wordpress plugin that allows you to use Wordpress as your editor and (automatically) export content in to Jekyll. WordPress2Jekyll attempts to marry these two systems together in order to make a site that can be easily managed from all devices.

Alternatives

More static site generators

See the Awesome Static List @ Static Times (github: statictimes/awesome-static) ».

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License

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