Jekyll Opine Theme

Jekyll Opine is a minimal, responsive Jekyll theme for blogs and personal websites, providing built-in search, comment support, and a customizable layout through a _config.yml file.

What is Jekyll Opine Theme?

Jekyll Opine is a Jekyll-based theme that transforms Markdown posts and pages into a static website with a clean, responsive layout. It runs on any system that can build Jekyll sites, requiring Ruby, Bundler, and Jekyll as prerequisites. The theme is published by the GitHub user leabs under the repository leabs/jekyll-leabs-theme.

Key Features

• Built-in search — Visitors can search the site's content directly from the front end without third-party plugins.
• Comment support — Enable comments on individual posts by setting comments: true in the post's front matter.
• Responsive design — The layout adapts to desktop, tablet, and mobile screen sizes for comfortable reading.
• Navigation control — Hide any page from the site navigation by adding exclude: true to that page's front matter; the index page is excluded by default because it is hard-coded into the navigation.
• Easy personalization — Edit _config.yml to change site-wide settings, and replace favicon.ico and assets/images/avatar.png with your own branding.
• Standard Jekyll workflow — Add posts to the _posts directory and pages to the root directory, using front matter to specify layout, title, date, permalink, and comment settings.

Who should use Jekyll Opine Theme?

• Jekyll bloggers — People who already run Jekyll and want a simple, pre-built theme instead of writing their own HTML and CSS.
• Personal website owners — Individuals who need a clean, responsive site for a résumé, portfolio, or personal writing.
• Developers learning Jekyll — Anyone who wants to see a minimal theme's structure and customize it by editing _config.yml, front matter, and asset files.

What can you do with Jekyll Opine Theme?

• Publish a blog — Create Markdown posts in _posts with front matter like layout: post, title, and date; the theme builds them into article pages.
• Build a personal page — Add static pages such as About or Contact in the root directory and control their URLs using permalink in front matter.
• Test Jekyll locally — Fork the repository, run bundle install and bundle exec jekyll serve, then view the site at http://localhost:4000.

How does Jekyll Opine Theme work?

1. Download, clone, or fork the repository from GitHub.
2. Edit _config.yml to personalize site-wide settings.
3. Replace favicon.ico and assets/images/avatar.png with your own files.
4. Run bundle install to install Ruby dependencies.
5. Run bundle exec jekyll serve and open http://localhost:4000 to preview the site.

Pricing

Jekyll Opine Theme is free and open-source. It is hosted on GitHub, where bug reports and pull requests are welcome, so anyone can download, modify, and reuse the theme without paying a license fee.

FAQ

Is Jekyll Opine Theme free?

Yes. The theme is open-source on GitHub, and you can download, fork, or modify it without cost.

How do I add a new post?

Create a Markdown file in the _posts directory and include front matter with layout: post, title, date, and optionally comments: true.

Does the theme support comments?

Yes. Each post can show a comment section by setting comments: true in its front matter; comments are disabled by default unless you add that flag.

How do I run the site locally?

Clone or fork the repository, run bundle install, then bundle exec jekyll serve; the site will be available at http://localhost:4000.

Can I remove pages from the navigation?

Yes. Add exclude: true to a page's front matter to hide it from the navigation. The index page is already excluded by default because it is hard-coded into the menu.