LightSpeed

About

LightSpeed A fast, simple, and privacy-respecting Jekyll theme. This theme acts as a landing page / personal website with post support. This theme was primarily created to act as a template for my personal website.

Requirements

Add the following gems to your Gemfile:

gem "jekyll"
gem "jekyll-feed"
gem "jekyll-seo-tag"
gem "jekyll-paginate-v2"

Once added, run bundle install to install them if not present already. SEO is optional and can be removed without impacting other functionality.

Features

• Post Support (Blog)
• Pagination and Dynamic Categories
• RSS Feed
• SEO
• Basic Mobile Support
• Syntax Highlighting (prism.js)

JavaScript Requirements

Syntax Highlighting

Syntax highlighting from prism.js can be customized and switched to a CDN provider if preferred by following these instructions

Analytics

Support for Plausible Analytics is provided by enabling it within _config.yml.

Example configuration:

analytics:
  plausible:
    enabled: true
    site_fqdn: 'lightspeed.tajacks.com'
    script_source: 'https://plausible.io/js/script.js'

enabled - Boolean - To enable or disable page-view analytics.

site_fqdn - String - The FQDN of your website to report back to Plausible.

script_source - String - The source of the analytics script. Provided as a variable to accommodate self-hosted instances of plausible.

Support for more analytics platforms is a welcome suggestion, as long as they respect user privacy.

Acknowledgements

CSS styles adapted and modified from Jeremy Thomas' 'Web Design in 4 Minutes'.

Theme spacing, colours, and content layout feedback provided by my wife ♥