Extending Vanilla Jekyll

Jekyll is a great platform for building a static blog site, but to really make it shine, you need to add some extra bells and whistles. This can be done using one of the many Jekyll plugins that are available online. The only caveat is that most plugins are disabled when you deploy to GitHub Pages.

This project (JekyllFaces) adds a ton of functionality without using any blocked plugins. All the code that extends the base Jekyll install is written in Liquid script, and JavaScript, which are both allowed in GitHub Pages websites.

Tons of Features

This project allows your to create all sorts of websites. Some of the features that you can integrate with little-to-no code include:

• Blogging support. (Thanks, Jekyll!)
• Hot reload of configuration changes.
• Bootstrap-based layouts.
• Bootswatch-based themes.
• Simplified navigation bar creation.
• Includes a selection of creative 404 pages.
• Configurable search.
• Configurable footers.
• Support for multiple Analytics vendors.
• Support for multiple Comments providers.
• Support for many popular Font Icons.
• Leanpub-friendly hosting of Markdown-based Books.
• A clean, structured means of hosting serverless Web Applications.
• A clean, structured means of hosting project Documentation.
• A clean, structured means of managing project Contributors.
• A configurable home page, where you pick what your visitors see first.
• Liquid and JavaScript widgets that aggregate and present content.
• Linters that validate the markdown, javascript, HTML, …
• And much, much more!