Chirpy Starter

The startup template for Jekyll Theme Chirpy.

When installing the Chirpy theme through RubyGems, Jekyll can only read files in the folders _includes, _layout, _sass and assets, as well as a small part of options of the _config.yml file from the theme's gem. (You can find the gem files by using the command bundle info --path jekyll-theme-chirpy). To fully use all the features of Chirpy, you need to copy the other critical files/directories from the theme's gem to your Jekyll site.

The critical files/directories to run or build the Chirpy theme are as follows:

.
├── _data
├── _plugins
├── _tabs
├── _config.yml
└──  index.html

So we've extracted all the Chirpy gem necessary content here to help you get started quickly.

Installation

Use this template to generate a new repository, and then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

Customing Stylesheet

Creare a new file /assets/css/style.scss in your Jekyll site.

And then add the following content:

---
---

@import "{{ site.theme }}";

// add your style below

Changing the Number of Tabs

When adding or deleting files in the _tabs folder, you need to complete the section Customing Stylesheet first, and then add a new line before @import:

$tab-count: {{ site.tabs | size | plus: 1 }};

Publishing to GitHub Pages

See the deployment instructions of jekyll-theme-chirpy.

Upgrading

First, please modify the target version number of jekyll-theme-chirpy in the Gemfile (e.g., gem "jekyll-theme-chirpy", "~> 4.0", ">= 4.0.1"). In addition, if the major version number is updated, you need to update the critical files to keep them the same as this project.

After that, execute the following command:

$ bundle update jekyll-theme-chirpy

Documentation

See the theme's docs.

License

This work is published under MIT License.