# Docs is a premium documentation Jekyll theme Desk was developed by [Ivan Chromjak](https://ivanchromjak.com) for [jekyll.plus](https://jekyll.plus/), theme [live demo](https://docs.jekyll.plus/) available. ## Features * Contact form * Live Search * Responsive videos * Image lightbox * Google maps * Github avatar * Changelog page * Contact form (FormSpree) * Pre-built pages * Disqus comments for posts * Configurable home page header images * Optimised for [GitHub](https://pages.github.com/) pages * RSS feed * SEO tags * Google Analytics ## Installation Install the dependencies with [Bundler](http://bundler.io/): ```bash bundle install ``` Run the following to generate your site: ```bash bundle exec jekyll serve ``` You can find more on [Deployment Methods](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/deployment-methods/) page on Jekyll website. ## Setup ### Site and author details Add your site and author details in `_config.yml`: ```yaml # Site title and description title: Docs - Documentation Jekyll Theme description: Documentation Jekyll theme. # Site base hostname & protocol, e.g. http://example.com url: "https://docs.jekyll.plus" # Site logo, image or text brand: image: touch-icon.svg # e.g. logo.png, upload logo image file to /assets/img/ folder text: Docs # if the above "logo:" image variable is not set, this text logo is displayed instead # Default author settings author: name: John Smith github: PressApps # Github username for avatar # Author settings, displayed on post and doc pages if front matter references author name e.g. author: peter authors: peter: name: Peter Brown github: PressApps # Github username for avatar # Social icons displayed in footer social: email: website: facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blockstack flickr: dribbble: github: https://github.com/blockstack googleplus: instagram: linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockstack-labs pinterest: twitter: https://twitter.com/blockstack vimeo: youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3J2iHnyt2JtOvtGVf_jpHQ/featured # Twitter share button twitter_username: ``` ### Navigation Bar Set in the main navigation links in `_data/navigation_header.yml`: ```yaml - title: About url: /about/ ``` ### Footer Edit copyright notice in `_config.yml`: ```yaml footer: copyright: ``` Set in the navigation links in `_data/navigation_footer.yml`: ```yaml - title: About url: /about/ ``` ### Enabling comments (via Disqus) Optionally, if you have a Disqus account, you can tell Jekyll to use it to show a comments section below each post. To enable it, add the following lines to your Jekyll site: ```yaml disqus: shortname: my_disqus_shortname ``` You can find out more about Disqus' shortnames [here](https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466208). Comments are enabled by default and will only appear in production, i.e., `JEKYLL_ENV=production`. If you don't want to display comments for a particular post you can disable them by adding `comments: false` to that post's YAML Front Matter. ### Google Analytics To enable Google Anaytics, add the following lines to your Jekyll site: ```yaml google_analytics: UA-NNNNNNNN-N ``` Google Analytics will only appear in production, i.e., `JEKYLL_ENV=production` ### Google Map To display Google map on contact page, add the following in your page content, replacing latitude, longitude and zoom values: ```yaml {% include map.html latitude="40.6700" longitude="-73.9400" zoom="16" %} ``` ### Contact Form (via FormSpree) Submit the form and confirm your email address at [FormSpree](https://formspree.io/). Then add the following lines to contact page YAML Front Matter, replacing the email address: ```yaml formspree: email: my_name@gmail.com redirect: /thanks/ ``` ### Update favicon You can find the current favicon (favicon.png) inside the theme `/assets/img/` directory, just replace it with your new favicon. ## Posts To create a new post, you can create a new markdown file inside the `_posts` directory by following the recommended file naming format: ``` YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP ``` Where `YEAR` is a four-digit number, `MONTH` and `DAY` are both two-digit numbers, and `MARKUP` is the file extension representing the format used in the file. For example, the following are examples of valid post filenames: ``` 2011-12-31-new-years-eve-is-awesome.md 2012-09-12-how-to-write-a-blog.md ``` Post requires front matter, everything in between the first and second --- are part of the YAML Front Matter, and everything after the second --- will be rendered with Markdown and show up as “Content”. The following is a post file with different configurations you can add as example: ```yaml --- layout: post title: How To Travel On Low Budget --- ``` You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run `bundle exec jekyll serve`, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated. To keep things more organized, add post images to `/assets/posts/` directory, and add theme images to `/assets/img/` directory. ### Adding images To add an image to a post or page use the following codes: Local image from `/assets/posts/` directory: ```yaml {% include image.html img="girl.jpg" alt="Alt for image" caption="Girl on a rock" %} ``` External wide image with lightbox: ```yaml {% include image.html img="https://source.unsplash.com/TT-ROxWj9nA.jpg" lightbox="true" alt="Alt for image" caption="Image in lightbox" %} ``` ### Adding table of contents Add the following code at the top of the post: ``` #### Sections in this article {:.no_toc} * TOC {:toc} ``` `{:.no_toc}` excludes the `#### Sections in this article` title from indexing in table of contents ### Responsive Videos Embed local videos: ```html ``` Embed YouTube videos: ```html ``` To create a draft post, create the post file under the `_drafts` directory, and you can find more information in [Working with Drafts](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/drafts/). ## Home Page To create a home page, just create a `index.md` file inside the root directory. The following is a YAML Front Matter example for a page: ```yaml --- layout: home hero: title: How Can We Help? # hero section settings subtitle: Search or browse in depth articles and videos on everything Jekyll, from basic theme setup and hosting to customisation and development image: imac.svg # display small image above title search: true # enable search categories: columns: 3 # number of category columns; 1, 2, 3, 4 title: Browse Topics subtitle: Get your answers fast, jump to most popular documentation content featured: # featured docs section settings title: Popular Articles tag: featured # tag used to populate featured section on home page section: # display page content title: Need More? subtitle: This section displays optional page content lorem ipsum cta: # call to action section title: Didn't find an answer to your question? subtitle: Get in touch with us for details on additional services and custom work pricing button_text: Contact Us button_url: /contact/ --- ``` Home page category boxes are added in `_data/navigation_home.yml`, e.g.: ```yml - title: Getting Started desc: Get your account up and running in just few easy steps icon: settings doc: usage - title: Account and Billing desc: Managing your account, creating new users and exporting data icon: credit-card doc: drafts ``` All available icons can be found [here](https://getuikit.com/docs/icon#library). ## Docs To create a document post, just create a new page inside the root directory and add the following code in content: ``` {% include faqs.html %} ``` Create new doc post entries in `_docs` folder, similar to creating posts, but with following front matter settings: ```yml --- layout: doc title: Category hosting Setting up new domain and page subtitle: This is optional doc subtitle tags: featured development author: peter --- ``` Sidebar navigation on docs post can edited in `_data/navigation_docs.yml`: ```yml - title: Getting Started # Section title docs: - home # Doc file name from _docs folder - quickstart - installation - windows ``` ## Changelog page Create new page with the following front matter: ```yml --- layout: changelog title: Changelog permalink: /changelog/ --- ``` Changelog enties are added in `_data/changelog.yml`: ```yml - title: Version 0.6.0 label: date: Aug 15, 2017 list: - Added style support for radio and checkbox in Firefox - Removed class from Section component ``` ## Customization To modify the primary color, open `/_sass/theme/variables.scss` and replace the color values e.g.: ```scss // Main content $color-main: #0F1214; ``` Further style customization can be done in the following files: ``` /_sass/theme/mixins.scss /_sass/theme/variables.scss /assets/css/main.scss ``` ## Development Install [UIkit](https://getuikit.com/) font end framework dependency via Npm: ```bash npm install ``` Enable live browser reload with the following: ```bash bundle exec jekyll s --livereload ``` ## Credits and Sources - Google analytics https://www.google.com/analytics/ - Google maps https://www.google.com/maps - UIkit front end framework https://getuikit.com/ - Jekyll CML https://jekyllrb.com/ ## Support Customer support is provided through our Envato profile page [contact form](https://themeforest.net/user/pressapps) for up to six months from the purchase date and is provided Monday to Friday during the business week. We aim to answer all support requests daily, most are handled within 48h.