gh-blog

Blogging made simple. No adware, no bloatware, and fully customizable.

This repository serves as a template and will allow you to instantly start blogging with your github account.

Make sure you have a github page for your username and have created a repository with the name username.github.io

Clone this repo into username.github.io repository and checkout another branch to develop on.

Perks of this blog

• Free hosting (github pages)
• Fully customizable (gatsby)
• Simple posting via markdown (simple text format)
• Fast (no bloatware)
• No ads, social media, tracking, analytics, third party scripts, sponsored posts, affiliate links, paywall and comments

Blogging should be simple and quick.

Steps to get started

• Head over to GitHub and create a new repository named username.github.io, where username is your username (or organization name) on GitHub (https://pages.github.com/)

$ git clone https://github.com/username/username.github.io
# Add this repository's source code to your repo
$ git checkout -b development
$ npm install
$ npm run deploy
# go to username.github.io to see your site

Running the blog locally

npm install
npm run start

You can see the site at http://localhost:8000/

How to deploy

Make sure your development branch is not master. The code to host your website will have to be pushed to the master branch.

npm run deploy

How to write content

• Add images to src/images when linking them in markdown files
• Create a new markdown file in src/markdown-pages for them to show up in the article listing
• Check out the initial post in src/markdown-pages for more information

Files you will need to update to customize your site

I left some <> variables and other random strings as placeholders.

• package.json
• gatsby-config.js

How is this created?

This is made using Gatsby