These are useful to add for most sites and work on GH Pages.

Setup

How to setup a plugin

  1. Add to your Gemfile
  2. Run bundle install locally.
  3. Add the plugin to the config’s plugins section.
  4. Follow any plugin-specific setup like configuring and adding your layouts.

Plugins

RSS feed

  • Repo: jekyll-feed

    • “A Jekyll plugin to generate an Atom (RSS-like) feed of your Jekyll posts.”_

    • The plugin will automatically generate an Atom feed at /feed.xml.

  • Produce an feed of posts.
    • If you don’t have a _posts directory, this won’t be useful for you.
    • But useful for consumers of your blog add to their reader tools.
    • This uses Atom and not RSS, which is explained why in the docs.
  • Follow the docs to configure.
  • After installing, add to your head HTML tag such as in _layouts/default.html. 
      {% feed_meta %}

Sample:

  • index.html

    ```

  • feed.xml First post! 2018-12-22T00:00:00+00:00 2018-12-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://michaelcurrin.github.io/jekyll-blog-demo/2018/12/22/first-post

    This is my first post after the one created as part of the blog template.

     This is my first post after the one created as part of the blog template.

    ```

SEO tag

  • Repo: jekyll-seo-tag
  • This adds metadata for search engines to use, including title, meta and a canonical tag. If you use this plugin, you don’t need to set title yourself or in a theme layout (as you’d duplicate the tag).
  • After installing, add to your head HTML tag such as in _layouts/default.html. 
      {% seo %}
  • See the advanced usage in the docs for setting authors and image OG data.

Sample:

  • index.html Home | Dev Cheatsheets

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