Oceanic - A Minimalist, Blue Theme For Jekyll

Oceanic is intended as a simple theme for Jekyll websites, with a main focus on blogs.

• Bright and minimalist theme.

• Skinning options with custom SASS parameters to tweak colours, fonts and some sizes.

• Code syntax highlighting through Rouge support. Syntax highlighting can also be skinned with custom colours if preferred.

• Configuration is easy to customize to specify:

  • Specify avatar image
  • Social media links
  • Theme skin
  • Pagination options
  • Category/Tag options
  • and more...

See HERE

First, add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem "jekyll-oceanic"

Next, add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:

theme: jekyll-oceanic

Finally, execute:

$ bundle config set path .bundle
$ bundle install
...

or install it system-wide with:

$ gem install jekyll-oceanic
...

Once installed, the theme should run out of the box with no configuration required. However, you will want to customize in order to set up your website the way you want.

See HERE for a rundown of the various configuration options.

The theme can be easily customized by creating skins. Skins are Sass files that define colors, fonts, and various other style properties that can be adjusted.

See HERE for a brief introduction to skinning.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/karlnicoll/jekyll-oceanic. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install.

Your theme is setup just like a normal Jekyll site! To test your theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve and open your browser at http://localhost:4000. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.

The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.