Wrath's blog

This website is created using Chirpy Starter and is hosted by GitHub Pages.

Repository Structure

This repository contains only critical files used for making the blog, i.e., only the following kind of files

content files (blog data and personal information)
- _config.yml - configuration of the site
- _data - includes contacts and sharing links
- pages - includes posts and collections
- assets/404.html - the 404 error page
select design files (possibly modified) from the GitHub fork of the current gem version
- _includes
- _layouts
- _sass
- assets/js
- _plugins
- .github/workflows
submodule
- assets/lib - contains self-hosted static-assets
also, media assets such as images and documents are stored in a separate repository called website-assets.

This separation allows user to focus on writing blogs while keeping away

the design files which allows easier version upgrade.
the media assets which reduces size of this repository.

Usage

To build the website

Install Jekyll and Git
Clone the repository using git clone --recursive https://github.com/paramrathour/blog
In the repository directory,
- run bundle to install dependencies
- run bundle exec jekyll serve and open the website locally using the displayed URL

To create posts

Use Jekyll Compose commands to work with draft posts and then publish the drafts

Features

Added

Toggle paginator_enable in the _config.yml to enable/disable pagination: @c8a9dc1
Post description in search results: file
404 page file
Reading time and last modified date on the home page: file, @8237eed, @4c3137c

Modified

Cross-platform Favicon support using realfavicongenerator (suggested by Tirthankar): file, @be29e4e
Increased search results limit: file
Persistent color scheme across browser sessions, using localStorage instead of sessionStorage: file
Changed collections directory: @92b83b0
Larger tooltip size: file, @a0ee300
Removed avatar-border: @727c8ec, @677ca90