Jekyll Rtd Theme
Just another documentation theme compatible with GitHub Pages
Overview:
The jekyll-rtd-theme is a documentation theme that is compatible with GitHub Pages. It is inspired by the sphinx-rtd-theme and refactored with @primer/css and github-pages dependencies. This theme allows users to generate documentation websites with the same files and folders from rundocs/starter-slim.
Features:
- Shortcodes: Includes various shortcodes such as toasts card and mermaid for enhanced functionality.
- Pages Plugins: Supports plugins like emoji, gist, avatar, and mentions for added features on pages.
- Auto Generate Sidebar: Automatically generates a sidebar for easy navigation through the documentation.
- Attribute List Definitions: Includes attribute list definitions using Primer/css utilities and Font Awesome 4 for styling.
- Service Worker: Enables caching of the website's pages for improved performance.
- SEO: Provides SEO-related functionalities such as handling 404 errors, generating robots.txt and sitemap.xml files.
- Canonical Link: Supports Open Graph, Twitter Card, and Schema data for proper social media sharing and search engine optimization.
Summary:
The jekyll-rtd-theme is a documentation theme for Jekyll that is compatible with GitHub Pages. It offers a range of features such as shortcode support, pages plugins, auto-generated sidebar, attribute list definitions, service worker for caching, SEO functionalities, and canonical link support. Installing the jekyll-rtd-theme involves adding the theme to your site's Gemfile and configuring it in the _config.yml file. This open source theme is distributed under the MIT License.
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