mediator

A medium inspired Jekyll blog theme. The basic idea came from the Ghost theme Readium 2.0. I use mediator on my own blog The Base.

Screenshots

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
• Clone it: git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USER/mediator
• Install the GitHub Pages gem (includes Jekyll): bundle install
• Run the jekyll server: jekyll serve

You should have a server up and running locally at http://localhost:4000.

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 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 for more examples.

Licensing

MIT 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. Feel free to open issues if you run into trouble or have suggestions. Pull Requests always welcome.