Princess Diaries is a Jekyll theme for building simple, customizable personal blogs and static websites. It provides a complete Jekyll site structure with layouts, styles, and configuration files, so you can focus on writing content in Markdown and publishing a static site.
What is Princess Diaries?
Princess Diaries is a simple and customizable theme for Jekyll, a static site generator that writes HTML pages from Markdown content and Liquid templates. The theme supplies the foundational files a Jekyll site needs, including the default layout, stylesheet, and configuration, and it accepts Markdown files as input to produce a static HTML website as output. Because it is a Jekyll theme, it runs on any platform that supports Jekyll, including GitHub Pages and Netlify.
Key Features
- Simple design — The theme is intentionally simple, meaning it uses a clean, minimal layout that puts the content first and avoids heavy JavaScript or complex visual elements.
- Customizable — Users can customize the theme by editing Jekyll's configuration file, changing the stylesheet, or modifying the Liquid templates to adjust the site's appearance and structure.
- Jekyll-native — Built on Jekyll, it supports standard Jekyll features such as posts, pages, collections, front matter, and Markdown, and it can be deployed to any static hosting service that supports Jekyll.
- Preview screenshots — The repository includes two preview images that show the theme's default look, giving potential users a visual check before installing.
Who is it for?
- Personal bloggers — Use Princess Diaries to start a straightforward blog where posts are written in Markdown and published as static HTML, without hand-coding a site from scratch.
- Jekyll beginners — Developers who are new to Jekyll can use this theme as a learning example, seeing how a minimal theme organizes its layout, includes, and configuration.
- Static site enthusiasts — Anyone who prefers a lightweight, no-frills website can quickly set up a personal page or content-focused site with the help of this theme.
What can you do with Princess Diaries?
- Launch a blog — Create a new Jekyll site by cloning the theme repository, adding Markdown posts, and deploying to GitHub Pages or another static host.
- Publish a personal page — Use the theme's simple layout to present an about page, a link page, or a short portfolio without installing a content management system.
- Learn Jekyll customization — Study the theme's source files to understand how a Jekyll theme is structured, then customize the styles and templates to create a unique site.
