Bitwiser Material theme for Jekyll.

A minimal material design theme using muicss.

Features

• Clean, simple and responsive layout
• Code formatting.
• Sitemap included.
• Google analytics.
• Disqus commenting (Loaded lazily).
• Share post to facebook and twitter.
• Robots.txt included.
• Custom 404 error page.
• Clean material theme.
• Awesome navigation menu on small screens.
• Post specific color or cover image.

Theme website: http://bitwiser.in/bitwiser-material/

Demo post: http://bitwiser.in/bitwiser-material/demo.html

Usage: http://bitwiser.in/bitwiser-material/usage.html

Download latest Zip: Here

Or browse releases: Releases

Report issues: Issues

If you are using this theme, do not forget to ⭐ this repo or tweet @brijeshb42.

Pull requests are also welcome 👍.

Getting Started

(Assuming you know what Jekyll and Github pages are.)

• Download this theme's zip file from here or clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/brijeshb42/bitwiser-material.git.

• Install ruby and then do gem install jekyll. This theme uses the latest jekyll version. So if you already have it installed, then upgrade it.

• _config.yml describes all the variables which you are required to set. The description begins with double hash(##). And the value to be set is commented below it using #.

• Edit _config.yml according to your requirements.

  • title : Your website name
  • disqus : disqusForumName If this value is present, disqus commenting will be automatically added to all your blog posts.
  • ga_id : googleAnalyticsID If this value is present, google analytics will be added to your website/blog. If ga_id is present, make sure that ga_domain is also present.
  • description: A short description of your website to be included in meta tag of your homepage
  • keywords : a few frequently used keywords on your site
  • links : This variable has a few commonly used social networks' links
    • facebook: facebookId
    • twitter : twitterHandle
    • email: [email protected]
    • github: githubUsername

• After setting the values in _config.yml, you can start adding posts in the _posts directory. Remove the example posts from the directory. The name of files in this directory should be according to specifications by jekyll, i.e, YYYY-MM-DD-your-post-title.md. Note that the file name extenion can be anything from md, markdown, mkd, textile or html.

• Replace the image files favicon.png and sharer.png with images of your own.

• Test the site on local machine using jekyll serve in the theme directory.

• If all works well, git push your changes to your github pages repository https://github.com/githubUserName/githubUserName.github.io

• Then visit your blog at http://githubUserName.github.io.

• If you want to use a custom domain, then edit the CNAME file and add your own domain example.com. Make sure your domain points to github ip address.

New Feature

• In every blog post, custom header color or cover image can be added.
• While creating a blog post, just add extra color or cover or both attributes in th front matter of the post alongside title and date.
• Value of color can be anything in [grey, orange, yellow, amber, light-blue, lime, teal, blue, black-87, blue-grey, brown, indigo, purple, deep-purple, red, pink].
• See the demo of all the colors here
• And the value of cover can be an absolute url of an image or a relative url like /img/post-cover.jpg. If using relative url, make sure the image is added in the img directory.