The Pocket theme for Jekyll

Pocket is a plain theme that uses no javascript or web fonts and loads just one plugin.

Installation

As a Ruby gem

Pocket is available as a Ruby gem. Assuming you have Ruby, Bundler and Jekyll installed, follow these steps:

  • Open a command line
  • Create a new Jekyll website by navigating to the folder you want to store it in
  • From the command line enter jekyll new my-website-folder-name
  • Jekyll will create a new site
  • Open the _config.yml file
  • Edit the theme: minima line. Replace minima with pocket-theme
  • Open the Gemfile file
  • Add this line: gem "pocket-theme", "~> 0.4.4"
  • Go to the command line and enter cd my-website-folder-name
  • Enter bundle update
  • Test the site works by entering bundle exec jekyll s
  • Open a browser and visit localhost:4000
  • The Pocket theme should open

Download from Github

Assuming you have Ruby, Bundler, Git and Jekyll installed, follow these steps:

  • Open a command line
  • Navigate to the folder you want to store the website in
  • Enter git clone https://github.com/leonp/pocket-theme.git
  • Navigate to the pocket-theme folder
  • Enter bundle exec jekyll s
  • Open a browser and visit localhost:4000
  • The Pocket theme should open

Site variables

You can add variables to your _config.yml file:

  • title (e.g. title: The Pocket theme for Jekyll), displayed at the top of every page and in the browser title bar
  • description (e.g. description: "A shortish sentence or two that will be displayed at the bottom of every page.")
  • lang (e.g. lang: en), used in the HTML element to define the main language of your blog
  • url (e.g. url: https://leonpaternoster.com), the full address of your website

The intro variable

Pages or posts accept an intro variable. Intros are displayed below the page/post title in a slightly larger font. They serve as a summary of the page/post.