The Better Leap Day theme

Better Leap Day is a fork of Leap Day Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages. You can preview the theme to see what it looks like, or even use it today.

Usage

To use the Leap day theme:

1. Add the following to your site's _config.yml:

   remote_theme: alexcatze/better-leap-day
   plugins:
   - jekyll-remote-theme # add this line to the plugins list if you already have one

   Also You can specify version of theme using @. In example: alexcatze/[email protected];

2. Optionally, if you'd like to preview your site on your computer, add the following to your site's Gemfile:

   gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins

Customizing

Configuration variables

Leap day will respect the following variables, if set in your site's _config.yml:

title: [The title of your site]
description: [A short description of your site's purpose]

Additionally, you may choose to set the following optional variables:

show_downloads: ["true" or "false" (unquoted) to indicate whether to provide a download URL]
google_analytics: [Your Google Analytics tracking ID]

Setting up site menu

You can add 2 level menu on Your site with this theme by populating _data/menu.yml file. Example:

primary:
  - title: Main Menu
    subfolderitems:
      - name: "Home"
        url: "/"
      - name: "Project on Github"
        url: "https://github.com/AlexCatze/better-leap-day"
      - name: "Dropdown example"
        url: "#"
        subsubfolderitems:
          - name: "Link to another psge"
            url: "/another-page.html"

Stylesheet

If you'd like to add your own custom styles:

1. Create a file called /assets/css/style.scss in your site
2. Add the following content to the top of the file, exactly as shown:

   ---
   ---
   
   @import "{{ site.theme }}";

3. Add any custom CSS (or Sass, including imports) you'd like immediately after the @import line

Note: If you'd like to change the theme's Sass variables, you must set new values before the @import line in your stylesheet.

Layouts

If you'd like to change the theme's HTML layout:

1. For some changes such as a custom favicon, you can add custom files in your local _includes folder. The files provided with the theme provide a starting point and are included by the original layout template.
2. For more extensive changes, copy the original template from the theme's repository
   (Pro-tip: click "raw" to make copying easier)
3. Create a file called /_layouts/default.html in your site
4. Paste the default layout content copied in the first step
5. Customize the layout as you'd like

Customizing Google Analytics code

Google has released several iterations to their Google Analytics code over the years since this theme was first created. If you would like to take advantage of the latest code, paste it into _includes/head-custom-google-analytics.html in your Jekyll site.

Project philosophy

The Better Leap Day theme is my fork of Leap Day with some improvements. The goal of this project is creating detter version of Leap Day.

Previewing the theme locally

If you'd like to preview the theme locally (for example, in the process of proposing a change):

1. Clone down the theme's repository (git clone https://github.com/pages-themes/leap-day)
2. cd into the theme's directory
3. Run script/bootstrap to install the necessary dependencies
4. Run bundle exec jekyll serve to start the preview server
5. Visit localhost:4000 in your browser to preview the theme