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Awesome Jekyll

A collection of awesome Jekyll goodies (tools, templates, themes, plugins, guides, etc.)

Contributions welcome. Anything missing? Send in a pull request. Thanks.

Jekyll Headquarters (HQ)

Simple, blog-aware static website generator - the world's most popular website compiler - publish blogs, books, radio talk shows, talk slides and much more

Jekyll (web: jekyllrb.com, github: jekyll, gem: jekyll)
- Official News & Updates - what's news?
  - Follow Core Developers
    - Ben Balter @ GitHub Inc. (github: benbalter, web: ben.balter.com, twitter: benbalter)
    - Parker Moore @ GitHub Inc. (github: parkr, web: byparker.com, twitter: parkr)
    - Jordon Bedwell (github: envygeeks, web: envygeeks.io, twitter: envygeeks)
- Official Talk Forum - discuss all things Jekyll

News

Planet Jekyll (twitter: planetjekyll) -- For news about Jekyll 'n' friends (e.g. new themes, new plugins, new conferences 'n' meetups, etc.) follow @planetjekyll on Twitter
Jekyll Weekly Newsletter (web: jekyllweekly.com, github: jekyllweekly) by Brad West

Showcase

The world's greatest static websites

Jekyll Static Site Showcase @ Planet Jekyll (web: planetjekyll.github.io/showcase) - Bootstrap, Polymer, The Open Data Handbook, Stack Exchange Blog, and many more; all sites with sources

F.A.Q.s

Jekyll F.A.Q.s @ Planet Jekyll (github: planetjekyll/quickrefs/FAQ.md) -- Frequently Asked Questions & Answers

Quick References / Cheat Sheets

Jekyll Quick Reference (Cheat Sheet) @ Planet Jekyll (github: planetjekyll/quickrefs/JEKYLL.md)
Jekyll Cheat Sheet @ Jekyll Tips (web: cheat.jekyll.tips)
Jekyll Cheat Sheet @ Devhints.io (web: devhints.io/jekyll, github: rstacruz/cheatsheets/jekyll.md) - by Rico Sta. Cruz

Books

Hyde Press Bookshelf (web: hydepress.github.io, twitter: hydepress) -- Free (Online) Books about Jekyll and friends
- The Free Jekyll Book - the (Official) Jekyll doc reformatted as a single-page black-n-white online book (work-in-progress)
- The Free Jekyll Plugins & Tools Book - READMEs for Jekyll plugins & tools reformatted as a single-page black-n-white online book (work-in-progress)
- and many more

Conferences

Online - World Wide - Intertubes

JekyllConf (web: jekyllconf.com, twitter: jekyllconf) -- online global conference for all things Jekyll; best practices, case studies, the future of jekyll and more
- 2016 @ Intertubes; Saturday May/7th (FREE) - #2
- 2015 @ Intertubes; Saturday May/2nd (FREE) - #1

Articles

Jekyll Tips (web: CloudCannon Academy (formally known as jekyll.tips), github: CloudCannon/Academy)

Getting Started Guide
And many more

Various

CloudCanon CMS for Jekyll: Building a Multilingual Site by Jean-Sebastien Tremblay; Snipcart; Sep 2017
Achieving 100 / 100 on Google PageSpeed Insights (using Jekyll) by Andy Smart; March 2016
Goodbye Medium, Hello Jekyll by Jared White; March 2016
How I'm Using Jekyll in 2016 by Michael Rose; February 2016
How I'm Using Jekyll in 2017 by Michael Rose; August 2017
How to Create an Open Source Directory on GitHub Pages by David Darnes; March 2016
Why I left Blogger for Jekyll by Fred; March 2016
Consider Jekyll: why I use Jekyll to publish on the web and why you might be interested by Oliver Pattison; March 2016
How We Built Our Blog (with Jekyll) by Jon Chan; StackExchange Inc.; July 2015
Building a blog using Jekyll by Jeremias Menichelli
- Install and quick setup July 2015
- Creating custom layouts July 2015
- Writing posts and presenting them; Aug 2015
A Fast Blogging Solution: Building a Simple Jekyll Blog by PJ Hagerty; EngineYard Inc.; Feb 2015
Building Static Sites with Jekyll by Andrew Burgess; tuts+; Oct 2011
Using Jekyll and GitHub Pages for Our Site by Young Hahn; Development Seed; Sep 2011
Making Jekyll multilingual by @sylvaindurand, Oct 2016

SitePoint

Set Up a Jekyll Blog in 5 Minutes with Poole by Vikas Lalwani; June 2015
Jekyll on Rails by Jesse Herrick; Apr 2015
Static Blogging Tool Face-Off: Middleman vs Jekyll by David Turnbull; Feb 2015
Blogging: WordPress or Jekyll by Hugo Giraudel; Nov 2014
Getting Started with Jekyll Collections by Taylor Jones; Oct 2014
Zero to Jekyll in 20 minutes by Jonathan Jackson; Apr 2012
More Jekyll Articles @ SitePoint

Jekyll From Scratch Series by Mike Greiling (PixelCog; Minneapolis, MN)

Getting Started; Jul 2013
Core Architecture; Jul 2013
Extending Jekyll; Jul 2013
PixelCog.com Site (github: pixelcog/pixelcog.github.io)

Screencasts

Jekyll Casts by Mike Neumegen (CloudCannon); FREE
- 1 - Introduction to Collections -- Learn how to use collections to manage and organize related content
- 2 - Front matter -- Use front matter to set variables on your page
- 3 - Layouts -- Use Jekyll layouts to reduce repetition on your site
- 4 - Includes -- Jekyll includes let you include page fragments on your site
- 5 - Introduction to Liquid -- Introduction to using Liquid in Jekyll static site generator
- 6 - Control Flow Statements in Liquid -- Use liquid to control which content is displayed on the page
- 7 - Looping in Liquid -- Control how liquid loops over your content
- 8 - String Filters in Liquid -- Modify string variables in liquid
- and many more

Bookmarks

Jekyll Bookmarks @ The New Dynamic by Bud Parr

Themes / Templates

See the Jekyll Theme Directory @ Dr. Jekyll's ».

Michael Rose (Made Mistakes) Jekyll Themes -- Skinny Bones, Minimal Mistakes, So Simple, HiPSTeR, etc.
Henry's Jekyll Themes -- Boom!, Classics Book, Starter, Starter V2, Minimalistic, etc.
Poole's Jekyll Themes by Mark Otto -- Poole, Lanyon, Hyde
The Zen of Book Designs -- One Book, Many Designs
The Zen of Page Designs -- One Page, Many Designs
Slide Show (S9) Templates -- Slide Show / Presentation Templates e.g. S6 Blank, deck.js, impress.js, etc.

Theme Package Manager and Wizards

drj / drjekyll (github: drjekyllthemes/drjekyll, gem: drjekyll) -- the missing static site theme package manager
mrh / mrhyde (github: mrhydescripts/mrhyde, gem: mrhyde-tools) -- static site quick starter script wizard
- mrhyde wizard scripts -- automate, automate, automate
slush gh-pages / GitHub Pages Generator (github: ronik-design/slush-gh-pages, npm: slush-gh-pages) -- boilerplate wizard with CSS framework selection and extensive Node.js-based tooling. Specifically intended for use with GitHub Pages.

Applications

JKAN - Light-Weight Open Data Catalog (CKAN Clone) (web: jkan.io, github: timwis/jkan) by Tim Wisniewski et al; incl. w/ admin pages w/ auth (logins)
- Q&A w/ Tim Wisniewski (U.S. Open Data); March 2016
Federalist (web: federalist.18f.gov, github: 18F/federalist) by 18F (a US government agency part of General Services Administration); a web app for publishing static government websites (w/ Jekyll)

Plugins / Extensions

See the Awesome Jekyll Plugins List (github: planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-plugins) ».

Jekyll Spaceship ★158 (gem: jekyll-spaceship) -- 🚀 A Jekyll plugin to provide powerful supports for table, mathjax, plantuml, mermaid, emoji, video, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, audio, spotify, soundcloud, etc.
Jekyll::NewsSitemap ★2 (gem: jekyll-news-sitemap) -- Jekyll plugin to silently generate Google News Sitemap based on posts.

Snippets / Recipes

Tips / Tricks

Articles

Jekyll and AngularJS by Jesse Herrick; May 2015

Liquid Template Language

Liquid (github: Shopify/liquid, gem: liquid)
- Version History / Change Log

Docs @ Liquid Wiki

Liquid for Designers
- Output ({{ }})
  - Advanced output: Filters • Standard Filters
- Tags ({% %})
  - Comments • Raw • If / Else • Case Statement • Cycle • For loops • Variable Assignment
Liquid for Programmers
- Create your own filters
- Create your own tags
- Create your own tag blocks

Docs @ Shopify

Liquid Basics

Markdown

Modern hypertext markup in easy-to-read and easy-to-write ye olde plain vanilla text

See the Awesome Markdown List @ Write Kit (github: writekit/awesome-markdown) ».

News

Manuscripts News (twitter: manuscriptsnews) -- For news about writing in Markdown 'n' friends (e.g. tools, tips & trips, etc.) follow @manuscriptsnews on Twitter.

Command Line Tools

~~jcli.sh (github: StefanKrauth/shell-scripts/jcli.sh) by Stefan Krauth - Jekyll Bash Command Line Interface~~
jbh.sh (github: alanbarber/jbh) by Alan Barber - Jekyll Blog Helper
jtasks (github: pavdmyt/jtasks) by Pavel Dmytrenko - simple, but powerful, interface to run both common and advanced routines in Jekyll projects
Jekyll Starter Kit - A Jekyll Progressive Web App yeoman generator.
Generator Jekyll Plugin by Jam Risser - 💎 Yeoman generator for jekyll plugins
attranslate by fkirc - A tool for synchronizing translation-files.

"Visual" Editors n Tools

See the Awesome Jekyll Editors List (github: planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-editors) ».

Octopress Headquarters (HQ)

Jekyll's Ferrari - obsessively designed toolkit for writing and deploying jekyll blogs

Octopress (web: octopress.org, github: octopress, gem: octopress) - by Brandon Mathis et al

Publish / Upload / Deploy / Sync

Articles

How to automatically deploy static web site to the hosting by Vitaly Repin; Jul 2015
- Step 1: Install rrsync to your home folder (server-side)
- Step 2: Setup certificate-based ssh access (server side)
- Step 3: Rsync! (client-side)
- Optional step 4: exclude transfer.sh from being copied to the output folder by Jekyll
Deploy Jekyll sites to S3 using Travis CI
Deploy Jekyll sites anywhere using jekyll-hook
Building and publishing a Jekyll site using Buddy CI/CD

GitHub Pages Headquarters (HQ)

Websites for you and your projects

GitHub Pages (web: pages.github.com, github: github/pages-gem, gem: github-pages)
- Dependency Versions (version.json) - shows current versions (e.g. jekyll, liquid, kramdown, etc.) in use for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages Starter Pack: Extended Resources

Official Doc / Help Pages

GitHub Pages Basics
- Using Jekyll with GitHub Pages
- and many more
Customizing GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages Troubleshooting
- Unpublishing a Project Pages site
- and many more

Milestones / History

2016:

April 2016 +++ A look behind our decision to standardize on a single Markdown engine for GitHub Pages
March 2016 +++ Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown
Feb 2016 +++ GitHub Pages now faster and simpler with Jekyll 3.0

2015:

Sept 2015 +++ Easier feeds for GitHub Pages
May 2015 +++ Releases metadata for GitHub Pages
Apr 2015 +++ Eight lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months
Jan 2015 +++ How GitHub uses GitHub to document GitHub

2014:

Jul 2014 +++ GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 2.2.0
May 2014 +++ GitHub Pages <3
Mar 2014 +++ Repository metadata and plugin support for GitHub Pages

2013:

Sep 2013 +++ Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents
Aug 2013 +++ Cutting the GitHub Pages Gem
May 2013 +++ Jekyll Turns 1.0
Apr 2013 +++ New GitHub Pages domain: github.io
Jan 2013 +++ GitHub Pages updated to Jekyll 0.12.0

2012:

Jun 2012 +++ GitHub Pages Update
Apr 2012 +++ Instantly Beautiful Project Pages

2009:

Apr 2009 +++ Pages 2.0
Apr 2009 +++ GitHub Pages Upgraded to Jekyll 0.5.0

2008:

Dec 2008 +++ GitHub Pages

GitLab Pages Headquarters (HQ)

Websites for you and your projects

GitLab Pages (web: pages.gitlab.io)
- Official Documentation
- Example Jekyll Site (gitlab: pages/jekyll) -- example jekyll site using GitLab Pages

WordPress Migration / Import / Export / Templates

WordPress Jekyll Exporter (wordpress: plugins/jekyll-exporter, github: benbalter/wordpress-to-jekyll-exporter) by Ben Balter -- export your WordPress blog to jekyll with one click
WordPress <--> GitHub Sync (wordpress: plugins/wp-github-sync, github: mAAdhaTTah/wordpress-github-sync) by James DiGioia, Ben Balter et al -- sync content with a GitHub repository (or Jekyll site)
WordPress Theme <=> Jekyll Template Cheat Sheet @ Planet Jekyll (github: planetjekyll/quickrefs/WORDPRESS.md)
Wordpress2Jekyll (wordpress: plugins/wp2jekyll) -- a Wordpress plugin that allows you to use Wordpress as your editor and (automatically) export content in to Jekyll. WordPress2Jekyll attempts to marry these two systems together in order to make a site that can be easily managed from all devices.

Alternatives

More static site generators

See the Awesome Static List @ Static Times (github: statictimes/awesome-static) ».

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