mediator ======== A medium inspired Jekyll blog theme. The basic idea came from the Ghost theme [Readium 2.0](http://www.svenread.com/readium-ghost-theme/). I use mediator on my own blog [The Base](blog.base68.com). Screenshots -------- ![screenshot](/assets/images/screenshot1.jpg) ![screenshot](/assets/images/screenshot2.jpg) ![screenshot](/assets/images/screenshot3.jpg) Features ------- * Fully Responsive layout * Use header images in articles, if you want to (add tag "image" and url to the image in the front matter section of a post) * Minimal design * Featured article support * FontAwesome implemented for easy use of icons fonts * Free & Open Source Font usage Getting Started --- - [Fork this repository](https://github.com/dirkfabisch/mediator) - Clone it: `git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USER/mediator` - Install the [GitHub Pages gem](https://github.com/github/pages-gem) (includes Jekyll): `bundle install` - Run the jekyll server: `jekyll serve` You should have a server up and running locally at . Configuration ----- The main settings happen in side of the _config.yml file: ### Site Main settings for the site * **title**: name of your site * **description**: description of your site * **logo**: small logo for the site (300x * 300x) * **cover**: large background image on the index page * **name**: name site owner * **email**: mail address of the site owner * **author**: author name * **author_image**: small image of author (300x * 300px) ### Social The template allows to add all major social plattforms to your site. Fill the the form for each plattform. If you leave the share_* entries empty, the sharing buttons below a post are not shown. * **icon**: name of social plattform (must match a name of [font-awsome](http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/) icon set ) * **url**: url of your account * **desc**: slogan of the plattform * **share_url**: share url * **share_title**: first part of url for the title * **share_link**: second part of the share url for the link to the post The Liquid template engine will magical combine the different parts to a share url. ``` http://twitter.com/share?text=post_title&url=post_url ```` See [_config.yml](https://github.com/dirkfabisch/mediator/blob/master/_config.yml) for more examples. Licensing --------- [MIT](https://github.com/dirkfabisch/madiator/blob/master/LICENSE) with no added caveats, so feel free to use this on your site without linking back to me or using a disclaimer or anything silly like that. Contact ------- I'd love to hear from you at [@dirkfabisch](https://twitter.com/dirkfabisch). Feel free to open issues if you run into trouble or have suggestions. Pull Requests always welcome.