Long Haul
  • Author: Brian Maier Jr.
  • License: MIT
  • Category: Jekyll
Long Haul

Long Haul is a minimal jekyll theme built with SASS / GULP / BROWSERSYNC / AUTOPREFIXER and focuses on long form blog posts. It is meant to be used as a starting point for a jekyll blog/website.

If you really enjoy Long Haul and want to give me credit somewhere on the internet send or tweet out your experience with Long Haul and tag me @brianmaierjr.

Setup

  1. Install Jekyll
  2. Fork the Long Haul repo
  3. Clone it
  4. Install Bundler
  5. Run bundle install
  6. Install gulp dependencies by running npm install
  7. Run Jekyll and watch files by running gulp
  8. Customize and watch the magic happen!

Site Settings

The main settings can be found inside the _config.yml file:

  1. title: title of your site
  2. description: description of your site
  3. url: your url
  4. paginate: the amount of posts displayed on homepage
  5. navigation: these are the links in the main site navigation
  6. social diverse social media usernames (optional)
  7. google_analytics Google Analytics key (optional)