urban-jekyll-template — Jekyll Business Template

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2026-10-01T04:28:59.332Z

# Urban [ LEGACY TEMPLATE NO LONGER MAINTAINED ]

Web Agency themed business template for Jekyll. Browse through a [live demo](https://teal-worm.cloudvent.net/).
Increase the web presence of your agency with this configurable theme.

![Urban template screenshot](images/_screenshot.png)

Urban was made by [CloudCannon](https://cloudcannon.com/), the Cloud CMS for Jekyll.

Find more templates, themes and step-by-step Jekyll tutorials at [CloudCannon Academy](https://learn.cloudcannon.com/).

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## Features

* Contact form
* Pre-built pages
* Pre-styled components
* Blog with pagination
* Post category pages
* Disqus comments for posts
* Staff and author system
* Configurable footer
* Optimised for editing in [CloudCannon](https://cloudcannon.com/)
* RSS/Atom feed
* SEO tags
* Google Analytics

## Setup

1. Add your site and author details in `_config.yml`.
2. Add your Google Analytics and Disqus keys to `_config.yml`.
3. Get a workflow going to see your site's output (with [CloudCannon](https://app.cloudcannon.com/) or Jekyll locally).

## Develop

Urban was built with [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) version 3.3.1, but should support newer versions as well.

Install the dependencies with [Bundler](https://bundler.io/):

~~~bash
$ bundle install
~~~

Run `jekyll` commands through Bundler to ensure you're using the right versions:

~~~bash
$ bundle exec jekyll serve
~~~

## Editing

Urban is already optimised for adding, updating and removing pages, staff, advice, company details and footer elements in [CloudCannon](https://app.cloudcannon.com/).

### Posts

* Add, update or remove a post in the *Posts* collection.
* The **Staff Author** field links to members in the **Staff** collection.
* Documentation pages are organised in the navigation by category, with URLs based on the path inside the `_docs` folder.
* Change the defaults when new posts are created in `_posts/_defaults.md`.

### Contact Form

* Preconfigured to work with [CloudCannon](https://app.cloudcannon.com/), but easily changed to another provider (e.g. [FormSpree](https://formspree.io/)).
* Sends email to the address listed in company details.

### Staff

* Reused around the site to save multiple editing locations.
* Add `excluded_in_search: true` to any documentation page's front matter to exclude that page in the search results.

### Footer

* Exposed as a data file to give clients better access.
* Set in the *Data* / *Footer* section.

### Company details

* Reused around the site to save multiple editing locations.
* Set in the *Data* / *Company* section.