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Awesome Jekyll
A collection of awesome Jekyll goodies (tools, templates, themes, plugins, guides, etc.)
Contributions welcome. Anything missing? Send in a pull request. Thanks.
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)
- Follow Core Developers
- Official Talk Forum - discuss all things Jekyll
- Official News & Updates - what's news?
News
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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
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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
- Making Jekyll
multilingual by @sylvaindurand, Oct 2016
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
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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
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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) ».
- Jekyll Spaceship ★158 (gem: jekyll-spaceship) -- 🚀 A Jekyll plugin to provide powerful supports for table, mathjax, plantuml, mermaid, emoji, video, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, audio, spotify, soundcloud, etc.
- Jekyll::NewsSitemap ★2 (gem: jekyll-news-sitemap) -- Jekyll plugin to silently generate Google News Sitemap based on posts.
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)
Docs @ Liquid Wiki
- Liquid for Designers
- Output (
{{ }})- Advanced output: Filters • Standard Filters
- Tags (
{% %})- Comments • Raw • If / Else • Case Statement • Cycle • For loops • Variable Assignment
- Output (
- Liquid for Programmers
- Create your own filters
- Create your own tags
- Create your own tag blocks
Docs @ Shopify
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 Interfacejbh.sh(github: alanbarber/jbh) by Alan Barber - Jekyll Blog Helperjtasks(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
- attranslate by fkirc - A tool for synchronizing translation-files.
"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
- Building and publishing a Jekyll site using Buddy CI/CD
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
- Dependency Versions (
- GitHub Pages Starter Pack: Extended Resources
Official Doc / Help Pages
- GitHub Pages Basics
- Using Jekyll with GitHub Pages
- and many more
- Customizing GitHub Pages
- 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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