Content is the king but making the site a bit more SEO-friendly (or should I say Google-friendly?) doesn’t hurt. Load speed Relevant link: Optimize the hell out of your website for PageSpeed. Sitemap Help Google’s bots crawl your site better. jekyll provides it as a plugin. Structure data markup Use …

I was wondering if anyone has created one like this before and stumbled across this issue on octopress repo. imathis came up with this proposition for paginated post. The primary page would be the standard post url. Successive pages would be at post-url/2/index.html, etc. The atom feed will still show the full …

Very cool idea by @randymorris. Basically, actual source will now live in the source branch and generated content (_site folder) will be in master instead. Make changes in the source branch Build and test the site locally Commit changes to source branch git publish-website which consists of the following steps git …

jekyll documentation is actually a very good source if you want to learn about writing a jekyll plugin. I highly recommend you to read that first. There are many examples at the end of the page as well. Jekyll has a plugin system with hooks that allow you to create custom generated content specific to your site. You …

If you want to share some Liquid code snippet or say some Django code, jekyll would try to process it as it looks like valid Liquid template and throw some weird errors. The solution is to use raw tag. Again, I cannot use raw tag nested inside raw tag. Though, you would probably never have to do it, unless writing a …

Basically, this plugin will generate a archive based on your specified layout so that you can access it at url like example.org/2014/ example.org/2014/08/ At first, I thought this is one of the default feature of jekyll but I was mistaken toto for jekyll. toto was another static site generator that I used before. …

I started using jekyll with Github Pages few years back but Github Pages didn’t allow plugins at the time and I do want to hack a bit around jekyll for my needs so I gradually move to self-hosting. As for static blog doesn’t require much resource, I opted for the lowest package on RamNode which goes for $15 …

Sample syntax {%raw%} {% youtube http://youtu.be/NiYCgVKioI4 %} {%endraw%} or even shorter {% raw %} {% youtube NiYCgVKioI4 %} {% endraw %} Basically, this plugin will replace your youtube tag with a beautiful, responsive thumbnail of the video instead of loading the iframe and a bunch of other stuff along with that …

If you have several css files, each for different purpose, combining it into one would minimize HTTP requests and improve load times significantly. jekyll mades it very easy with include tag. Here’s how you do it. Move all the css files you want to include to _includes folder. You create a new layout in …

First of all, create your custom error page. You can either use static html or jekyll template for this. If you decide to use one of your custom layout, the path will be a bit different when jekyll generates static pages. I created a 404.html file that looks like this. --- layout: default title: "404: Page not …