Setting up chalk theme, Jekyll

What is Jekyll ?

Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator for personal, project, or organization sites. It is very helpful to quickly setup a blog post also you can host that it on gitpages if you like.

Prerequesties

I hope you have enviroment for jekyll already setup before following this post, if you haven’t done that it yet, follow this link to jekyll docs.

Getting Chalk Theme

Clone the chalk theme - Chalk theme github

┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~]
└──╼ $git clone https://github.com/nielsenramon/chalk.git
Cloning into 'chalk'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1494, done.
remote: Total 1494 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1494
Receiving objects: 100% (1494/1494), 14.09 MiB | 73.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (780/780), done.

Install the requirements

In chalk theme directory

┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~]
└──╼ $npm run setup

Run the jekyll theme in your system

┌─[fumenoid@parrot]─[~]
└──╼ $npm run local

You may see a lot of warnings, but ignore them now if you navigate to http://127.0.0.1:4000 you will see the chalk theme running.

Configuring the theme

Many settings can be easily configured in _config.yml, but somehow any changes i did in _assets/stylesheets/_variable.scss broke the theme so i ended up changing css in light*.css and dark*.css files in _site for both themes.

Another important feature that is there in the theme is adding thumbnail’s of post but somehow code for this is missing from index.html, in the end my friend syzmex helped me with it. so to add thumbnail’s in post replace the code in index.html with this code and now you can give thumbnail image address when you create a post.

Setting up gitpages

Alright so as the original repo stated, the theme doesn’t work on gitpages but you can easily do it by uploading the content of _site to your git page repository.