Oscailte
Oscailte — A powerful light, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme.
Overview
Oscailte is a light and clean theme for use on Jekyll sites, released under the MIT Licence. It is designed to be easy to install and customize, and offers features such as comments via Disqus, integration with social networks, Google Analytics support, and the ability to display post-excerpts on the home page. Oscailte also provides a guide for customizing the site's colors and encourages collaboration with bug reports and pull requests on GitHub.
Features
- Installation: Provides instructions for installing Oscailte either as a remote theme or via a Gemfile.
- Usage: Explains how to configure Oscailte using settings nested under the 'oscailte' key in the site's configuration file.
- Enabling Comments (via Disqus): Guides users on how to enable Disqus comments for each post on their Jekyll site.
- Social Networks: Allows users to add links to their accounts on other sites and display respective icons on the site.
- Enabling Google Analytics: Offers instructions for integrating Google Analytics into the Jekyll site for tracking user activity.
- Enabling Excerpts on the Home Page: Shows how to display post-excerpts on the home page of the Jekyll site.
- Customizing Oscailte Site Colors: Provides a list of CSS custom properties used for styling the theme, allowing users to customize the site's colors.
- Contributing: Encourages collaboration and provides guidelines for contributing to the Oscailte project on GitHub.
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