Luring

Luring is a simple, multi-device Jekyll blog theme, forked from the maupassant-jekyll project, that renders a lightweight responsive blog from Markdown posts.

What is Luring?

Luring is a Jekyll blog theme that takes Markdown posts and Jekyll configuration and produces a static HTML blog. It is a reworked and optimized fork of the maupassant-jekyll theme, originally built by alafighting and further modified by Huoty in 2016. The theme descends from Maupassant, a responsive template designed by Cho for the Typecho blogging platform, and the original design is only 20KB. This Jekyll version preserves that minimal style while running on the static-site generator Jekyll.

Key Features

• Responsive layout — The theme adapts to phones, tablets, and desktops; the original Maupassant design is known to perform well on devices of all sizes.
• Minimal footprint — The original Maupassant template is only 20KB, so the Jekyll port inherits a lightweight codebase.
• Jekyll integration — Built as a standard Jekyll theme using Liquid templates; it relies on the jekyll-paginate gem for pagination, as shown in the install instructions.
• Simple installation — Users clone the repository, install the jekyll-paginate gem, then run jekyll build and jekyll server to preview locally.
• Cross-platform design — The same Maupassant design is available for Typecho, Octopress, Farbox, WordPress, Hexo, Ghost, and Jekyll, so bloggers can keep the look across platforms.

Who should use Luring?

• Independent bloggers who want a minimal, fast Jekyll theme without the bloat of larger templates.
• Developers using Jekyll who prefer to install a theme by cloning a GitHub repository and building with standard Jekyll commands.
• Bloggers moving away from Typecho or WordPress who want to keep the Maupassant style in a static-site setup on Jekyll.

What can you do with Luring?

• Personal blogs: Write posts in Markdown, run jekyll build, and publish a responsive site that works on mobile and desktop.
• Theme customization: Since it is a fork, developers can modify the layout files in the repository to adjust colors, fonts, or page structure.
• Local preview: Use the included instructions to serve the blog at http://localhost:4000 for testing before deployment.

How does Luring work?

The README describes a local Jekyll setup: install Jekyll with gem install jekyll, create a new site with jekyll new my-awesome-site, then run bundle install and bundle exec jekyll serve. For the theme itself, clone the repository, install jekyll-paginate, and run jekyll build and jekyll server to generate and serve the site.

FAQ

Does Luring support pagination?

Yes, the installation steps include gem install jekyll-paginate, which is the standard Jekyll gem for paginated post listings.

Is Luring free?

The theme is a public GitHub repository with no mention of licensing fees or a paid tier, so it is free to download and use.

Can I use Luring on GitHub Pages?

The README does not explicitly state GitHub Pages support, but because it is a standard Jekyll theme with the jekyll-paginate dependency, you would need to add that gem to your site's Gemfile for Pages to build it correctly.