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Jekyll’s growing use is producing a wide variety of tutorials, frameworks, extensions, examples, and other resources that can be very helpful. Below is a collection of links to some of the most popular Jekyll resources.
Useful Guides
- Jekyll Tips is a set of resources created by CloudCannon to help folks get up and running with Jekyll. They cover all skill levels, and even include some great video tutorials.
- Jekyll Cheatsheet is a single-page resource for Jekyll filters, variables, and the like.
- “Creating and Hosting a Personal Site on GitHub”
- ‘Build A Blog With Jekyll And GitHub Pages’ on Smashing Magazine
- Publishing to GitHub Pages? Check out our documentation page for just that purpose.
- Blogging with Git, Emacs and Jekyll
- Tips for working with GitHub Pages Integration
Integrations
- Use a saas service as a backend for forms (contact forms, hiring forms, etc.)
- Jekyll Bootstrap, 0 to Blog in 3 minutes. Provides detailed explanations, examples, and helper-code to make getting started with Jekyll easier.
- Integrating Twitter with Jekyll
“Having migrated Justkez.com to be based on Jekyll, I was pondering how I might include my recent twitterings on the front page of the site. In the WordPress world, this would have been done via a plugin which may or may not have hung the loading of the page, might have employed caching, but would certainly have had some overheads. … Not in Jekyll.”
- Staticman: Add user-generated content to a Jekyll site (free and open source)
Other commentary
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‘My Jekyll Fork’, by Mike West
“Jekyll is a well-architected throwback to a time before WordPress, when men were men, and HTML was static. I like the ideas it espouses, and have made a few improvements to it’s core. Here, I’ll point out some highlights of my fork in the hopes that they see usage beyond this site.”
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‘About this Website’, by Carter Allen
“Jekyll is everything that I ever wanted in a blogging engine. Really. It isn’t perfect, but what’s excellent about it is that if there’s something wrong, I know exactly how it works and how to fix it. It runs on the your machine only, and is essentially an added”build" step between you and the browser. I coded this entire site in TextMate using standard HTML5 and CSS3, and then at the end I added just a few little variables to the markup. Presto-chango, my site is built and I am at peace with the world.”
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Generating a Tag Cloud in Jekyll – A guide to implementing a tag cloud and per-tag content pages using Jekyll.
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A way to extend Jekyll without forking and modifying the Jekyll gem codebase and some portable Jekyll extensions that can be reused and shared.