Basics
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Adding a category or tag
- Adding a page
- Adding an entry to the sidebar
- Adding an about page
- Adding a welcome page*
- Adding a project*
- Adding a resume*
Adding a category or tag
Hydejack allows you to use the list
layout to show all posts of a particular tag or category.
Recap: Tags and categories in Jekyll
Posts in Jekyll can belong to one or more categories, as well as one or more tags. They are defined in a post’s front matter:
---
layout: post
title: Welcome to Jekyll
categories: [jekyll, update]
tags: [jekyll, update]
---
Posts can also be assigned to a category based on their position within the folder structure, e.g.
├── jekyll
│ └── update
│ └── _posts
│ └── 2017-04-07-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown
would place “Welcome to Jekyll” in the categories jekyll
and update
. Whether you use this method or not, categories will always be part of a posts URL, while tags will not, e.g.
Categories | /jekyll/update/2017/04/07/welcome-to-jekyll/ |
Tags | /2017/04/07/welcome-to-jekyll/ |
As far as Jekyll is concerned, these are the only differences.
Tags and categories in Hydejack
Categories and tags are displayed by Hydejack below the title, after the date. Categories are displayed with the preposition “in”, while tags are displayed with the preposition “on”, e.g.
Categories | Welcome to Jekyll¬ 07 Apr 2017 in Jekyll / Update |
Tags | Welcome to Jekyll¬ 07 Apr 2017 on Jekyll, Update |
Both | Welcome to Jekyll¬ 07 Apr 2017 in Jekyll / Update on Jekyll, Update |
Adding a new category or tag
Be default, categories and tags are rendered as plain text. Further steps are necessary if you want them to link to a page that contains a list of all posts that belong to that category or tag.
For each “featured” category or tag, a file called <categoryname>.md
or <tagname>.md
has to be created in _featured_tags
or _featured_categories
, respectively. Each file in these folders is part of a Jekyll Collection.
The the data of a category or tag is set in the files front matter, e.g.
---
layout: list
title: Hyde
slug: hyde
description: >
Hyde is a brazen two-column Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com) theme
that pairs a prominent sidebar with uncomplicated content.
It's based on [Poole](http://getpoole.com), the Jekyll butler.
image: 'data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPAAACAgIP///yH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw=='
color: '#268bd2'
menu: true
---
layout
- Must be
list
title
- Used as title of the page, as well as name of the category or tag as part of the line below a blog post’s title. Can be different from the name of the tag or category, as long as
slug
is identical to the name. slug
- Must be identical to the key used in the blog’s front matter, i.e. if you use
categories: [jekyll]
ortags: [jekyll]
, theslug
must bejekyll
. Normally the slug is derived from the title, but it is recommended that you set it explicitly. description
- A medium-length description, used on the tag or category’s detail page as meta description and shown in a message box below the title.
image
- Will be used as fallback for all pages that belong to that category or tag.
color
- Will be used as fallback for all pages that belong to that category or tag.
menu
- Set to to
true
if you want the category or tag to be linked in the sidebar. For more information, see Adding an entry to the sidebar.
Once the file is created, the page can be found at /category/<categoryname>
or /tag/<tagname>
.
Adding a page
You can add generic pages that support markdown content but aren’t blog posts. For example, this documentation is written in markdown, consisting of several generic pages.
To add a page, create a new markdown file and put layout: page
in a front matter
---
layout: page
title: Documentation
---
Now you can add content as you would in a blog post.
Adding an entry to the sidebar
Hydejack’s sidebar can add links to any page within the site. In order for a page to appear in the sidebar, it needs to have a truthy menu
value defined in its front matter. The page also needs to have a title
, otherwise the entry in the sidebar will be blank.
If you want the link to appear at a particular position, you can set a numeric value to the order
key. However, the page is not guaranteed to appear in the 5th position when you set a value of 5
, since it will only use that number to sort the pages, i.e. the position of a page also depends on the order
of all other pages in the sidebar.
Adding an about page
About pages are a frequent use case, so Hydejack has a special layout for it, which is a slight modification of the page
layout. Demo. The main difference is that it will display an author’s about
text and picture
above the regular content.
To create an about page, make sure layout
is set to about
, and that the author
key is set to an author defined in _data/authors.yml
. For more on authors, see Adding an author.
---
layout: about
title: About
author: qwtel
---
Adding a welcome page*
If you bought the PRO version of Hydejack you have access to the welcome
layout. It is intended to showcase your projects and blog posts in a compact way. Technically, it is a modified version of the about
layout, so it will also show author information at the top. Demo.
You can create a welcome page by creating a new markdown file and setting the layout to welcome
in the front matter.
---
layout: welcome
title: Welcome
author: qwtel
---
Without further configuration, the welcome page will show the two most recent projects and five most recent blog posts. However, the welcome layout supports selecting specific projects and posts, by adding to the front matter:
---
layout: welcome
title: Welcome
selected_projects:
- _projects/hydejack-v6.md
- _projects/hyde-v2.md
selected_posts:
- _posts/2017-05-03-javascripten.md
- _posts/2012-02-07-example-content.md
more_projects: projects.md
more_posts: posts.md
---
layout
- Must be
welcome
. selected_projects
- A list of paths to project files that should be displayed below the main content of the page. The paths are relative to the main directory with no leading
./
. If no paths are provided, the two most recent projects will be used. selected_projects
- A list of paths to blog posts that should be featured on the welcome page. The paths are relative to the main directory with no leading
./
. If no paths are provided, the five most recent posts will be used. more_projects
- The path to the main projects page. The path is relative to the main directory with no leading
./
. more_posts
- The path to the main posts page. The path is relative to the main directory with no leading
./
.
Adding a project*
Projects are organized using Jekyll Collections. Each project generates an entry on the projects layout (Demo) as well as its own detail page (Demo).
Each project is defined by a file in the _projects
directory. The project’s meta information is defined in the file’s front matter. You can also add markdown content. A project’s front matter may look like:
---
layout: project
title: Hyde v2*
date: 2 Jan 2014
screenshot:
src: /hydejack/assets/img/projects/hyde-v2@0,25x.jpg
srcset:
1920w: /hydejack/assets/img/projects/hyde-v2.jpg
960w: /hydejack/assets/img/projects/hyde-v2@0,5x.jpg
480w: /hydejack/assets/img/projects/hyde-v2@0,25x.jpg
caption: Hyde is a brazen two-column Jekyll theme.
description: >
Hyde is a brazen two-column [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com) theme that pairs a prominent sidebar with uncomplicated content. It's based on [Poole](http://getpoole.com), the Jekyll butler.
links:
-
title: Demo
url: http://hyde.getpoole.com
-
title: Source
url: https://github.com/poole/hyde
author: mdo
---
layout
- Must be set to
project
date
- Providing a year is the minimum requirement. Used to sort the projects.
screenshot
- A 16:9 screenshot of the project. You can pass a URL to an image, but it is recommended that you provide an entire
srcset
(see above). Hydejack will show the screenshot in various sizes, depending on the screen width, so that no specific size will fit all. Instead it is recommended that you use a mipmap-like approach, providing the image in multiple sizes, each image half the width of the previous one. Thesrc
key is a fallback image for browsers that don’t support thesrcset
attribute. The keys of thesrcset
hash will be used as descriptors. For more information onsrcset
, see the documentation at MDN, or this article from CSS-Tricks. caption
- A short description, shown as part of each “project card” in the
projects
layout. description
- A medium-length description, used on the project’s detail page as meta description and shown as message box below he screenshot.
links
- A list of
title
-url
pairs that that link to external resources related to this project. author
- Shown below the project, similar to posts.
Adding a resume*
Hydejack’s PRO version features a generalized resume layout. Demo.
It generates the resume page from a valid JSON Resume, which is good news if you already have a JSON resume. Otherwise, there are various ways of obtaining one:
- You can use the visual JSON Resume Editor.
- If you have a LinkedIn profile, you can try LinkedIn to Json Résumé.
- You can edit the example
resume.json
in the_data
directly. It contains example entries for each type of entry.
Once you have a JSON Resume, place it into _data
.
If you prefer editing YAML files, there is an example _resume.yml
file in _data
. In order to use it, rename it to resume.yml
and delete resume.json
.
To render the resume page, create a new markdown file and set the layout to resume
in the front matter:
---
layout: resume
title: Resume
---
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