Reality Blue

Reality Blue is a Jekyll theme to help you build a cute, minimalist blog and portfolio site. You can view a demo here or directly see it in action on my page.

Disclaimer: this theme was not designed to be very flexible, as it is primarily for my own site, but if others would like to use it I am happy to make suggestions and improvements. Consider it under development.

Honestly it was a name that came up before I finalized my design. It has a minimal amount of blue, and it's a minimalist theme, right?

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "reality-blue-jekyll-theme"

And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: reality-blue-jekyll-theme

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install reality-blue-jekyll-theme

The primary layout of Reality-Blue is a basic dynamic-page layout.

1. Define your "sections" in the _config.yml and add your content files as includes. Currently there is support for exactly 3 sections.
2. Define further desired CSS/Sass in css/style.scss, being sure that 'reality-blue' styling is imported as well

Available Includes:

• post-list: generic blogpost front-page list. links to archive once page is full

Available Layouts:

• archive: generic post archive
• default: empty page with default headers
• home: index with defined sections
• page: generic page with "return to home" header
• post: blog post default page

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/terry-wen/reality-blue. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install.

Your theme is setup just like a normal Jekyll site! To test your theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve and open your browser at http://localhost:4000. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.

When your theme is released, only the files in _layouts, _includes, _sass and assets tracked with Git will be bundled. To add a custom directory to your theme-gem, please edit the regexp in reality-blue-jekyll-theme.gemspec accordingly.

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.