This post introduces the essential stuff you need to know to use jekyll as a blogging tool.
What’s jekyll?
A tool that allows you to write and generate static websites. It provides some scaffolding resources that help you write static websites/blogs faster.
Why do I learn jekyll?
Github supports it.
_config.yml
Each site has one _config.yml file, which controls how the Jekyll engine generates and organizes different webpages.
front matter
Any file that contains a YAML front matter block will be processed by Jekyll engine as a special file. The front matter must be the first thing in the file and must take the form of valid YAML set between triple-dashed lines.
---
layout: post
title: Blogging Like a Hacker
---
global variables
layout: layout files must be placed in the _layouts directory.
permalink: if you need your processed blog post URLs to be something other than the site-wide style (default /year/month/day/title.html), then you can set this variable and it will be used as the final URL.
published : set to false if you don’t want a specific post to show up when the site is generated.
custom variables
Any variables in the front matter can be referenced in the page.
write a post
With these essential elements, you can then use Markdown to write your posts, however, HTML is also supported.