The Pocket theme for Jekyll¶ ↑
Pocket is a plain theme that uses no javascript or web fonts and loads just one plugin.
Installation¶ ↑
As a Ruby gem¶ ↑
Pocket is available as a Ruby gem. Assuming you have Ruby, Bundler and Jekyll installed, follow these steps:
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Open a command line
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Create a new Jekyll website by navigating to the folder you want to store it in
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From the command line enter
jekyll new my-website-folder-name
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Jekyll will create a new site
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Open the
_config.yml
file -
Edit the
theme: minima
line. Replaceminima
withpocket-theme
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Open the
Gemfile
file -
Add this line:
gem "pocket-theme", "~> 0.4.4"
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Go to the command line and enter
cd my-website-folder-name
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Enter
bundle update
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Test the site works by entering
bundle exec jekyll s
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Open a browser and visit
localhost:4000
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The Pocket theme should open
Download from Github¶ ↑
Assuming you have Ruby, Bundler, Git and Jekyll installed, follow these steps:
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Open a command line
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Navigate to the folder you want to store the website in
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Enter
git clone https://github.com/leonp/pocket-theme.git
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Navigate to the
pocket-theme
folder -
Enter
bundle exec jekyll s
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Open a browser and visit
localhost:4000
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The Pocket theme should open
Site variables¶ ↑
You can add variables to your _config.yml
file:
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title
(e.g.title: The Pocket theme for Jekyll
), displayed at the top of every page and in the browser title bar -
description
(e.g.description: "A shortish sentence or two that will be displayed at the bottom of every page."
) -
lang
(e.g.lang: en
), used in theHTML
element to define the main language of your blog -
url
(e.g.url: https://leonpaternoster.com
), the full address of your website
The intro variable¶ ↑
Pages or posts accept an intro
variable. Intros are displayed below the page/post title in a slightly larger font. They serve as a summary of the page/post.