🆕 This repo is now archived. I recently switched to a hugo based Blog🆕

About

This is repository contains the source files of my personal jekyll based blog. The theme is based on beautiful-jekyll by Dean Attali.

✨ If you're starting with a new site you can also look at my Standalone version of beautiful-jekyll here: beautifulSA-jekyll

⚠️ Note: github-pages compatibility ⚠️

I recently moved away from github-pages. To fulfill GDPR I'm now hosting the blog on my own. Additionally I removed all external (fonts, JS CDNs) resources and integrated them. If you need more details about the changes see Page And Privacy Updates.

This site is still github-pages compatible!

🔧 Custom Build Process 🔧

If you are interested about my custom build process you can take a look at the autobuild.sh script. This script is called by a cronjob and starts building the blog if there were new commits on the master branch.

Page / Post Template

My personal template for all available Front Matter YAML vars

---
layout: # page | post (blog) | minimal
title:	# Page or blog post title
subtitle: # Short description of page or blog post that goes under the title
image: # /path/to/img
show-avatar:  #(false) | true
bigimg:	# /path/to/img - or multiple entries <- "Path": "Description">
category: # Powershell
tags: # [tag1, tag2, tag3]

# ---- Jekyll optional vars ---- #
# date: # overrides tha tage from the file name YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
# permalink: # (default /year/month/day/title.html)
# published: # (true) | false

# ---- Theme based optional vars ---- #
# comments: # (false) | true
# show-avatar: # (true) | false
# social-share: # If you don't want to show buttons to share a blog post on social media, use social-share: false (this feature is turned on by default).
# use-site-title: # (false) | true
---

Snippets

Table of Content

**Content**

* TOC Placeholder
{:toc}

Content Summary

{% include about.html caption="Heading" content="some content"  footer=true readingtime=true %}

Vars

• Caption: Adds a header line.
  • If not given the page title is used.
  • If the title has more than 35 chars the default heading About_ThisPage is used
• Content: Defines the content of the about box
  • You can provide a Value with this var or use the page.excerpt var.
• footer: enables the footer section in general
• readingtime: Displays an average reading time in the footer section
• page.edit: is used to define your last edit date
• site.author.name: is used to display the author.

Notification boxes

Use the following syntax to add the classes to you box section: {: .box-note}, {: .box-warning} or {: .box-error}

You can use font-awesome icons within and set a custom color like this:

{: .box-note} NOTE: This is Notification class with a colored font-awesome icon. Select your color by adding these classes: icon-blue, icon-yellow or icon-red.