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Jekyll In 15 Minutes

by benhowdle89 on 6/3/13, 8:24 AM with 16 comments

• by kaoD on 6/3/13, 8:45 AM

  And a nice blog framework built on top of it: http://octopress.org/

• by cheerleader on 6/3/13, 11:46 AM

  Nice post. Despite what others said, there's a place for a quick overview of Jekyll. The Jekyll wiki (which, have they updated it recently? It seems more useful than I remember it), while comprehensive, covers far more information than you need to get up and running. A quickstart guide would have been handy when I was starting.

  A couple things that might have been helpful would be to mention how to create new posts (since they have a specific format) and perhaps linking to a barebones deployment of Jekyll that followed along with your post (though you did link to your site, so kudos for that).

  Keep on writing. A Jekyll plugin tutorial (as mentioned by ElongatedTowel) would indeed be a useful resource.

• by programminggeek on 6/3/13, 2:10 PM

  Jekyll is great, people should use it, but I wish there was more progress beyond Jekyll.

  The thing that kind of blows about Jekyll is you kind of need the local Jekyll environment to build your site. I kind of am starting to get to a point where I want to be able to have some hybrid of a web interface and local dev. Something like using Github's distraction free writing to create the pages, then be able to publish without the local setup.

  I guess I should just put a jekyll server in the cloud somewhere...

• by tuananh on 6/3/13, 9:38 AM

  I don't know why this got upvoted. There's nothing new added that you can't find on Jekyll wiki.

• by m4tthumphrey on 6/3/13, 9:43 AM

  15 minutes? You've put ~20 in the actual guide! Bad form.

• by fakeer on 6/3/13, 2:11 PM

  I wish there was sth like this for Hyde and/or Pelican. I have tried a lot many times but it just, for some reason or other, fail to take off properly either on my Pi or AWS or WebFaction.