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jekyll-klise — Jekyll Blog Template

By piharpi

Klisé is a minimalist Jekyll theme for personal sites and blogs, with light and dark mode support, a mobile-first responsive design, and an MIT license.

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Light and dark display modes

Mobile-first responsive layout covering desktop, tablet, and phone

Custom styles via .scss files

Built-in previous and next post navigation

Integrated jekyll-sitemap, jekyll-feed, rouge syntax highlighting, and jekyll-compress-html

Comment layout can be enabled as needed in frontmatter, with Google Analytics support

Template Details

Klisé is a minimalist theme for Jekyll, intended for building a personal site or blog. It offers light and dark modes, and the interface uses a mobile-first responsive layout that displays on desktops, tablets, and phones. Styles are customized through .scss files, making it easy to adjust colors and typography.

The theme includes several common blogging capabilities: posts support previous and next navigation, the comment layout can be enabled as needed in frontmatter, and Google Analytics is integrated. At the build level, it uses jekyll-postfiles to manage post images, jekyll-sitemap to generate a sitemap, jekyll-feed to output RSS, rouge for syntax highlighting, and jekyll-compress-html to compress HTML. The README states that pages pass W3C validation and pass checks in Lighthouse and PageSpeed.

Before use, note one clear limitation: the jekyll-postfiles plugin is not supported by GitHub Pages. If deployed directly to GitHub Pages, path errors or missing post images may occur. The author recommends using hosting services that support third-party plugins, such as Netlify, Vercel, Azure Static Web Apps, or surge.sh. The README's Backlogs also lists unfinished items, including integrating PhotoSwipe, adding schema.org metadata, and changing class selectors to BEM naming.

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Use Cases

Building a personal blog and publishing text-and-image posts
Creating a personal site to show an introduction and a list of posts
Reading-oriented sites that need light and dark mode switching
Deploying to hosting platforms that support third-party plugins, such as Netlify, Vercel, Azure Static Web Apps, or surge.sh

Suitable For

Developers familiar with Jekyll and the Ruby toolchain who are willing to run bundle commands locally
Personal bloggers who want to present text content in a minimalist style
Users who need to freely modify and distribute the theme code under the MIT license
Users who do not rely on GitHub Pages' native build and can choose their own hosting service

Getting started & customization

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To run locally, first clone the repository, then run bundle install and bundle exec jekyll serve, and visit localhost:4000.
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Because jekyll-postfiles is not supported by GitHub Pages, deploying directly to GitHub Pages may cause path errors or missing post images; it is recommended to use Netlify, Vercel, Azure Static Web Apps, or surge.sh instead.
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Comments are disabled by default and only appear after being set in the post frontmatter.
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The code is under the MIT license; when distributing, retain the original author's copyright notice and the full license notice; third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons must be checked separately for their licenses.

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Free to use · keep license notice

This entry covers the free version in the public repository under the MIT license; the free scope is the code of this version and does not mean that external services or third-party assets are free.

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Free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution of this version's code are permitted.
When distributing copies or substantial portions of the code, retain the original author's copyright notice and the full MIT license notice.
The code is provided as is; warranties and liability limitations are governed by the original license and applicable law.

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The jekyll-postfiles plugin is not supported by GitHub Pages. Deploying directly to GitHub Pages may cause path errors or missing post images; use hosting services that support third-party plugins, such as Netlify, Vercel, Azure Static Web Apps, or surge.sh.
The comment layout is disabled by default and only appears after being manually enabled in the post frontmatter.
Google Analytics is integrated; using this feature requires providing and configuring your own Google Analytics account and tracking ID, which is an external service.
Demo images, fonts, icons, and other third-party assets must be checked against their respective licenses; the code's MIT license alone cannot be used to judge them.
External services such as domains, hosting, databases, payments, or AI may incur additional charges.

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge
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Since [`jekyll-postfiles`](https://github.com/nhoizey/jekyll-postfiles#compatibility) plugin isn't supported by github pages, this cause will make your site problems, path broken or post images won't show up
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Comment layout, enable in frontmatter if you wish
Original README

Google analytics
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Template Information

Source platforms: GitHub
Documentation and maintenance reference score: More documented · 85 / 100
Technologies: Jekyll
Website type: Blog · Starter

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Screenshot last checked: 2026-10-01

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# Klisé

Klisé is minimalist Jekyll theme for running a personal site and blog running on Jekyll.<br>
For demo <a href="https://klise.now.sh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">klise.now.sh</a>

## Features

- [x] Light & Dark Mode support :waxing_crescent_moon:
- [x] Customizable (using `.scss`)
- [x] Responsive (desktop, tab and mobile)
- [x] Mobile First Design
- [x] SEO Optimized
- [x] Images of post Organized ([`jekyll-postfiles`](https://github.com/nhoizey/jekyll-postfiles))
- [x] Generate Sitemap ([`jekyll-sitemap`](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-sitemap))
- [x] RSS Feed ([`jekyll-feed`](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed))
- [x] Syntax Highlighter ([`rouge`](https://github.com/rouge-ruby/rouge))
- [x] Next & Previous Post
- [x] Comment layout, enable in frontmatter if you wish
- [x] Google analytics
- [x] HTML Minify ([`jekyll-compress-html`](https://github.com/penibelst/jekyll-compress-html))
- [x] W3C **Validated**
- [x] Lighthouse and PageSpeed **Passed**

![Lighthouse Result](./lighthouse.png)

## Backlogs

- [ ] Intergrated with PhotoSwipe.
- [ ] Add schema.org meta information.
- [ ] Transform class selector to BEM metodology.

## Installation

Run local server:

```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/piharpi/jekyll-klise.git
$ cd jekyll-klise
$ bundle install
$ bundle exec jekyll serve
```

Navigate to `localhost:4000`. You're Welcome, Fork and be Stargazer.

[![Deploy to Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/img/deploy/button.svg)](https://app.netlify.com/start/deploy?repository=https://github.com/piharpi/jekyll-klise) [![Deploy with Vercel](https://vercel.com/button)](https://vercel.com/import/project?template=https://github.com/piharpi/jekyll-klise) [![Deploy to Azure button](https://aka.ms/deploytoazurebutton)](https://portal.azure.com/?feature.customportal=false&WT.mc_id=javascript-0000-jopapa#create/Microsoft.StaticApp)

## Limitation

- Since [`jekyll-postfiles`](https://github.com/nhoizey/jekyll-postfiles#compatibility) plugin isn't supported by github pages, this cause will make your site problems, path broken or post images won't show up, you can host alternatively using likes [netlify.com](https://netlify.com), [vercel.com](https://vercel.com), [azure.com](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/static-web-apps/publish-jekyll) or [surge.sh](https://surge.sh) services, which support 3rd party.

## Contributing

If you see any typos or formatting errors in a post, or want to helping reduce backlogs or any other issue that needs to be addressed, please do not hesitate to open a pull request and fix it!, please read [contributing](./CONTRIBUTING.md) before PR.

Yeaaa feel free to open a pull request.
## Support

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## License

This project is open source and available under the [MIT License](LICENSE).

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