Get Info, a blog by Matt Sephton

See https://github.com/ahmadajmi/type for details of the original version of this theme.

The below text has been edited to reflect the changes I have made to the theme.

• Configurations
• Deployment
• Posts
• Images
• Pages
• Navigation
• Disqus Comments
• Social Media Links
• Update favicon
• Extra Includes

Configurations

Type theme comes with different customizations in the _config.yml file.

Deployment

To run the theme locally, navigate to the theme directory and run bundle install to install the dependencies, then run jekyll serve to start the Jekyll server.

I use Netlify to deploy the site as it enables me to use Jekyll plugins without the limitations of GitHub Pages.

I would recommend checking the Deployment Methods page on Jekyll website.

Posts

To create a new post, you can create a new markdown file inside the _posts directory by following the recommended file structure.

The following is a post file with different configurations you can add as an example:

---
layout: post
date: '2023-12-16T09:42+00:00'
last_modified_at: '2024-06-08T00:37+01:00'
title: Welcome to Jekyll!
tags: [frontpage, jekyll, blog]
nouns: [list, keywords, for, emphasise]
image: '/images/posts/welcome.jpg'
featured: true
pinned: true
comments: https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/1383034107672862722
carousel: carousel-id
excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
style: |
  #custom .lookandfeel {
    color: silver;
  }

---

You can set the title, and the following optional fields tags, nouns, post image, featured, pinned, comments link, carousel id, and excerpt-separator.

• To create a draft post, create the post file under the _drafts directory, and you can find more information at Working with Drafts.

• For tags, try to not add space between two words, for example, Ruby on Rails, could be something like (ruby-on-rails, Ruby_on_Rails, or Ruby-on-Rails).

• Nouns are similar to tags but list keywords that should be emphasised in the rendered post. I use these to emphasise (in italics) certain names, places, brands or products mentioned in the content. Doing it this way reduces the possibility of human error.

• To keep things more organized, add post images to /images/posts directory, and add page images to /images/pages directory.

• The featured key is to mark the post as a featured post, this will add a heart character (♥) to the postcard.

• The pinned key is to pin the post to the top of the first page, this will add a pin character () to the postcard.

• Recent posts (more recent than set number of seconds, currently disabled) are marked with an exclamation character (!) on the postcard.

• I prefer to encourage comments in a related twitter thread, so each post has an optional comments URL that can be defined.

• Carousel is taken from https://jekyllcodex.org/without-plugin/slider/ so please see that page for documentation. The only change I have made is allowing the id of the carousel to be specified in the post front matter, so that multiple carousels can be defined in carousel.yml.

• Excerpt display is currently disabled on postcards, but an excerpt_separator can be defined.

• Posts can be marked as published: private, so they can be seen by anybody with the URL but are excluded from listings, sitemap, RSS feed.

Images

• I provide specific styling for images taken from the Playdate console. They're shown with a bezel at chunky pixel @2x size and can be inserted as follows, noting the trailing hash ![GIF](/images/posts/daily-driver-animation.gif#playdate)

• Static images can be inserted normally and are displayed without any styling ![JPG](/images/posts/daily-driver-still.png)

• Captioned images can be inserted as follows: ![JPG](/images/posts/daily-driver-still.png "this is an image") {:.tofigure}

• Local image paths are converted to use a CDN server by a custom plugin

• Carousels are inserted as below, but will only display if there is a carousel-id in the post front matter {% include carousel.html height="82" unit="%" duration="7" %}

Pages

To create a new page, just create a new markdown file inside the _pages directory.

The following is the about.md file that you can find as an example included in the theme with the configurations you can set.

---
layout: page
title: About
image: '/images/pages/about.jpeg'
---

Things you can change are: title and image path.

Disqus Comments

Open _includes/disqus.html file, and change the aspirethemes-demos value on line 12 with your Disqus account shortname.

s.src = '//aspirethemes-demo.disqus.com/embed.js';

So, if your Disqus shortname is exampleone, the final code above should be

s.src = '//exampleone.disqus.com/embed.js';

That's all you need to setup Disqus from the theme side. If you get any issue regarding that comments are unable to load. First, make sure you have registered your website with Disqus (Step 1)

And also check Disqus troubleshooting guide if you still have issues.

Social Media Links

Removed in this fork.

Update favicon

You can find the current favicon (favicon.ico) inside the theme root directory, just replace it with your new favicon.

Extra Includes

• read-time.html to display reading time of non-html content
• tag-cloud.html to display a tag cloud with proportional sizing of tags (count per tags is present, but disabled by default)
• analytics.html to include Google Analytics. Requires google_analytics to be defined in _config.yml and JEKYLL_ENV=production
• error 404 page suggestions and search page both powered by plain JS and the sitemap file

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