Wall-E is a modern Jekyll template with a magazine-like grid layout on the frontpage, beautiful typography and uncomplicated content.
- Mobile responsive, built with Semantic UI, customization is easy
- Disqus is integrated by default
- One column layout suitable for personal blogs with focus on content
- Beautiful typography (uses League Gothic and Open Sans)
- Feature image can be added to homescreen post cards
- Search box links to Google search by default
Wall-E is fully furnished right out of the box. To use this template on your blog
- If this is your first Jekyll blog, follow this helpful guide to set up Jekyll.
- Fork this repository, rename the fork as
your-username.github.io
. Your blog should immediately be live onhttps://your-username.github.io
- Clone your fork
- Delete everything in
_posts
directory. Delete thetmp
directory. - Open
_config.yml
and set the variables - Open
_includes/disqus.html
and_includes/disqus-count.html
and replace the value ofdisqus_shortname
variable to your Disqus username - Run
jekyll serve
and your blog should be live onhttp://localhost:4000
. Make changes, test them locally, commit your changes and push to your fork. Your changes should be live in a couple of seconds
_includes/author.html
: Add your name, link to a profile picture and a short author description that appears on the bottom of each post. See Semantic Link docs._includes/card.html
: Cards can be customized to show the essential info about a post (feature image, catagory, tags, comment count etc). See Semantic Card docs._includes/header.html
: Replace the site logo here. Add/replace frequently visited pages and/or social links here._includes/footer.html
: Add your copyrights, if any, here. Also link to the less frequently visited pages and/or social links here.assets/css/main.css
andassets/css/mobile.css
: Global and mobile specific CSS files respectivelyassets/js/main.js
: Any common javascript goes here. If you wish to customize the search behaviour (for example, use a different search engine), that can be done here.
- Ghost blogging platform's demo page for inspiration (and the header background image).
- For the Wall-E image used everywhere
- Semantic UI
Open sourced under the MIT license <3