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jekyll / jekyll-admin

A Jekyll plugin that provides users with a traditional CMS-style graphical interface to author content and administer Jekyll sites.
https://jekyll.github.io/jekyll-admin/
MIT License
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Advice for extending jekyll-admin? #690

Closed derek-adair closed 1 year ago

derek-adair commented 1 year ago

There are features I would like from this project and am willing to put the work in to do so. However, I am not a ruby dev so its not exactly clear how I might go about extending this project and making it my own. I am fine with this projects scope, but it is not immediately clear how I might extend this without a fork.

Would it be possible to override css or javascript to bend this to my will without publishing my own gem?

Am I forced to fork and run gemstash?

Could there be some case to be made for jekyll-admin plugins?

Thanks for your time.

ashmaroli commented 1 year ago

@derek-adair Unlike other plugins from the Jekyll organization, Jekyll Admin is not extensible. You will have to fork it, set up a dev environment (Node JS), make necessary changes, and build the front end. If the changes made are only for your local usage, you need not cut a gem and manage a private gem server. The front end built above will be accessible to the local jekyll server through Bundler and Gemfile.