This post is part 3 of a short series about writing in org mode using org2jekyll.

The Jekyll theme on this page is slightly modified from the original jekyll clean theme. If you like the theme, you can use it from this blog, or from the original site https://github.com/scotte/jekyll-clean

The theme (optionally) uses Disqus for comments and (optionally) includes Google Analytics. Both are off by default, and can be changed in config.yml

To use this theme for a blog, look at the Jekyll docs and the original site https://github.com/scotte/jekyll-clean. Here are a few notes about about which files can be kept, modified, or removed for a reuse.

• You can generally keep the following directories and .html files. They are mostly Liquid language sections (Liquid templates), linked from the front page or used to build pages and posts (from files in the _layouts directory).
  • Files to keep or modify:
    • index.html is the blog "front page". keep this file as it is the Liquid template that builds the front page by querying what blogs are out there.
    • about.html
    • archive.html
    • links.html
  • Directories and contents to keep or modify:
    • _layouts
      • contains files such as post.html and page.html. These files define the top level structure of your blog pages or web sites. If you create a org file named org/a-test-blog.org and give it #+LAYOUT: post, then the result post is created from post.html , substituting { { content } } tag in the post.html with _posts/a-test-blog.html ( _posts/a-test-blog.html is first created by org2jekyll-publish-posts from the org file with same name). In the process, Jekyll transforms and injects files from the _includes directory, if so directed by the layout file post.html.
    • _includes
      • is the directory where all files mentioned in include tag markup should be located - files used in includes such as { % include included-file.html % } (with the space before / after the percentage removed; jekyll refuses publish a valid include markup)
    • images todo
    • js todo
    • LICENSE
• For making your own blog, you may want to generally remove content of the following directories on the top level, but keep the directory nodes:
  • org
    • directory where you write your posts and pages in org format (manually, or supported by org2jekyll-create-draft)
  • _posts
    • is a directory with:
      • .html files exported from .org files by command org2jekyll-publish-pages
      • Also, if you want to write your posts in markdown, you write them here as .md
  • _site
    • is a directory with .html files created by jekyll build. Files here are built by jekyll build from the following files
      • .html files and md files on the top level (e.g. index.html Liquid template file on top level is converted to _site/index.html which contains only html markup)
      • .org files from the org directory

Hopefully this is of some use in starting to use a jekyll theme.