Chalk is a high quality, completely customisable, performant and 100% free blog template for Jekyll.

Features

  • Dark and Light theme.
  • Filter on tags.
  • customisable pagination.
  • Beautified link sharing in Facebook and other social media.
  • Automatic time to read post indicator.
  • Automatic RSS feed.
  • About page.
  • 404 page.
  • SEO optimized.
  • PageSpeed optimized.
  • Cross browser support (supports all modern browsers).
  • Media embed for videos.
  • Enlarge images on click (like Medium).
  • Integrations

Installation

If you haven’t installed Ruby then go ahead and install it with: brew install Ruby. Next setup your environment:

bin/setup

Development

Run Jekyll:

bundle exec jekyll serve

Deploy to GitHub Pages

Run this in the root project folder in your console:

bin/deploy

You can find more info on how to use the gh-pages branch and a custom domain here.

View this for more info about automated deployment with Circle CI.

Contribute

  1. Fork it https://github.com/[my-github-username]/chalk/fork
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request