AskClass News Theme

Simple responsive Jekyll theme puts posts and authors front and center.

Installation

# If starting fresh add this
$ echo 'source "https://rubygems.org"' > Gemfile

$ echo 'gem "askclass-news-theme"' >> Gemfile
$ sed -i '1 s/^/theme: askclass-news-theme\n/' _config.yml
$ bundle

Configuration

Copy these files to your main folder. Edit _config.yml to your need. The content folder requires 3 sub-folders. content/_hastags folder requires index.html; copy content of index.html for every named tag.

/
│   index.html (required)
│   404.html
│   _config.yml (edit this file)
│   pwabuilder-sw.js (PWA)
│
└── content/
│   │
│   └── _posts/
│   │   │   2022-06-15-the-academy.md
│   │   │   ...
│   │
│   └── _writers/
│   │   │   plato.md
│   │   │   ...
│   │
│   └── _hashtags/
│   │   │   index.html (required)
│   │   │   bio.md
│   │   │   ...

Post Frontmatter

Field	Example	Description
layout	post	Don't add this unless you know what you're doing
title	The Hobbit	Main title of the post
category	J.R.R._Tolkien	Make author clickable (note the _)
writer	J.R.R. Tolkien	Non-clickable writer's name (note no _)
color	c5	Values: c1 .. c10 (see Card Colors);
tags	fantasy fiction	Alphanumeric words, use - to connect words
thumb	URL	Optional thumb image
image	URL	Optional main image
source	The Tolkien Society	Optional main source
source_url	URL	Optional link to source

Example

---
title: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Party
category: J.R.R._Tolkien
color: c5
tags: fantasy fiction
---

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
<!--more-->
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

Writer Frontmatter

Field	Example	Description
layout	writer	Don't add this unless you know what you're doing
size	100	Optional profile image size
style	center	Optional alignment either (center or left)
image	URL	Optional link to profile image

---
size: 100
style: left
image: https://author.images/tolkien.jpg
---

Biography.

---

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/beAuthentic/askclass-news-theme. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Development

To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install.

Your theme is setup just like a normal Jekyll site! To test your theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve and open your browser at http://localhost:4000. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.

When your theme is released, only the files in _layouts, _includes, _sass, content, and assets tracked with Git will be bundled. To add a custom directory to your theme-gem, please edit the regexp in askclass-news-theme.gemspec accordingly.

License

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MPL-2.0 License.