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
- Google Analytics
- Google Fonts
- Disqus
- Ionicons
- Social media links
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
- Fork it https://github.com/[my-github-username]/chalk/fork
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create a new Pull Request