A Jekyll-based blog theme that can be used by forking the repository and editing _config.yml
JekyllBlog
aj-jekyll-blog-theme — Jekyll Blog Template
By arihant-001
aj-jekyll-blog-theme is a simple Jekyll-based blog theme that provides basic features such as galleries, carousels, and pagination, under the MIT license.
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Provides gallery functionality by wrapping images in a container with the gallery class and data-columns attribute
Provides an image carousel by setting data-columns to 1
Supports pagination
Under the MIT license, allowing free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution of the code
The README provides a local development workflow based on a Docker image
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aj-jekyll-blog-theme is a Jekyll blog theme published on GitHub, positioned as a simple and elegant blog appearance. It is aimed at users who are familiar with or willing to learn basic Jekyll concepts (front matter, writing posts, creating pages). To use it, fork the repository and modify settings such as name, email, and baseurl in _config.yml. The theme provides galleries, image carousels, and pagination. Galleries and carousels are implemented by wrapping img tags in a div with the gallery class and a data-columns attribute; when data-columns is 3, it displays a multi-column gallery, and when it is 1, it displays a carousel. The repository README also explains development using Docker, including building the image, running the container, and executing jekyll serve inside the container. The theme is under the MIT license, allowing free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution of the code, but third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked against their respective licenses, and external services such as domains and hosting may incur additional charges.
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Use Cases
- Building a personal blog and publishing posts
- Inserting multi-column image galleries into blog posts
- Displaying image carousels on pages
- Deploying the blog to GitHub Pages
Suitable For
- Users who are familiar with or willing to learn basic Jekyll concepts
- Developers who need a simple blog appearance and want to modify the configuration themselves
- Bloggers who need to display image galleries or carousels in their posts
- Users who accept using Docker for local development
Getting started & customization
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First learn the basics of Jekyll, such as front matter, writing posts, and creating pages
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After forking the repository, edit _config.yml to update information such as name and email, and set baseurl to /, an empty value, or your site's baseurl
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For deployment to GitHub Pages, refer to GitHub's official Pages guide
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For local development, build the Docker image and run the container with a bind mount, then execute bundler exec jekyll serve --watch --host 0.0.0.0 inside the container
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Third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked against their respective licenses; they cannot be judged solely by the code's MIT license
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- GitHub
- Documentation and maintenance reference score
- Partly documented · 68 / 100
- Technologies
- Jekyll
- Website type
- Blog
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Source file / repository# AJ Blog - Jekyll Theme
A simple and elegant jekyll theme for blogs.
## How to Use
- If you are unfamiliar with jekyll, check out <http://jekyllrb.com> read up on just the basics of front matter, writing posts, and creating pages.
- For setting github pages follow [Github Guides](https://guides.github.com/features/pages/)
Fork this repository then start editing the `_config.yml` file.
- update your name, email, etc.
- update baseurl to `/` or ` ` or `your website baseurl`
## Features
- Elegant Design
- Image Gallery
```html
<div class="gallery" data-columns="3">
<img src="/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/assets/images/home.jpg">
<img src="/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/assets/images/contact.jpg">
<img src="/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/assets/images/about.jpg">
<img src="/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/assets/images/project.jpg">
<img src="/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/assets/images/post1.jpg">
</div>
```
- Image Carousels
```html
<div class="gallery" data-columns="1">
<img src="/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/assets/images/post1.jpg">
<img src="/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/assets/images/post2.jpg">
<img src="/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/assets/images/post3.jpg">
<img src="/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/assets/images/post4.jpg">
</div>
```
- Pagination
## Contribution
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at <https://github.com/arihant-001/aj-jekyll-blog-theme>. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the [Contributor Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org) code of conduct.
## Development
As there are many issues in jekyll and ruby installation, a `jekyll` docker image is used for development.
```sh
# build docker image
$ docker build -t theme .
# run docker container
$ docker run -itd --name theme --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/srv/jekyll/code -p 4000:4000 theme bash
# enter docker container
$ docker exec -it theme bash
$ cd code
# run jekyll theme
$ bundler exec jekyll serve --watch --host 0.0.0.0
```
Open <http://0.0.0.0:4000/aj-jekyll-blog-theme/>
## License
The theme is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
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