Theme features

Jekyll Origin is fully featured premium blog theme.

Content Types

• Homepage (Markdown)
• Blog (Markdown) - 3 Layouts
• Post (Markdown) - 3 Layouts
• Basic Pages (Markdown)
• Contact Page (Markdown)

Design & Code

• Jekyll 4.3.2+
• 100% responsive design
• Clean code and Jekyll best practices
• Content is editable and configurable via markdown or front-matter. No hardcoded content.
• Clean yet simple code - We intentionally write code that is easier for enthusiast and junior level programmers to understand and copy.
• Configure logo, colors, fonts all from _config.yml

CSS

• SCSS using Jekyll compiler. Includes all SCSS files which are well structured and cleanly written
• Bootstrap 5.2
• The entire Bootstrap library is not imported. Mainly we use the grid, media queries and utilities. You can import the entire library if you need to.

Speed

• 100/100 Google Lighthouse speed score
• Tiny CSS and JS filesize ⚡
• No jQuery

SEO

• 100/100 Google Lighthouse SEO score
• Meta tags and description auto generated for each page
• OG meta tags for Facebook, Twitter etc auto generated for each page
• Meta tags can be overriden in the frontmatter on a per page basis
• Semantic HTML document structure, particularly on single pages
• Social media links can be configured in data/social.json - Fontawesome is used for the icons.

Privacy

• We are committed to building themes that are privacy friendly
• By default, this theme does no use cookies
• We support self hosted Google fonts and two privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternatives
• No other 3rd party snippets, tracking code or services are used that might track users data

Analytics

• We support several analytics providers that can be configured in _config.yml, supports environment variables.
• Google Analytics
• Plausible (privacy focused, hosted)
• Umami (privacy focused, self-hosted)

Menus

• Main menu managed data/menu.yml
• Nested dropdown menu
• Responsive menu using simple vanilla JS code, Animated hamburger menu and mobile overlay

Header

• Comes with 4 logo configs for desktop, mobile and transparent modes. Your logo will be perfect 👌
• Header can fixed (sticky) and animated on scroll

Darkmode

• First class darkmode support
• Configure manual dark mode and position of dark mode toggle
• Configure automatic darkmode based on users OSX setting (css prefers-color-scheme).

Social

• Social media links can be configured in data/social.json - Fontawesome is used for the icons.
• Auto generated and overridable OG Meta data for Facebook and Twitter cards

Contact Form

• Contact page & contact form
• Supports Netlify forms and Formspree forms

Comments

• Includes Commento comments (privacy friendly)
• Includes Disqus comments

Newsletter

• Includes Mailchimp subscribe

Fonts

• Supports Google fonts
• Fonts can be configured in _config.yml
• Fonts can be self-hosted (GDPR compliant, privacy friendly) or use the Google CDN. Theme ships with self-hosted fonts.
• Font Awesome 6 icons

Cookie Banner

• Cookieconsent open source Cookie banner - a lightweight, cutomizable, GDPR compliant cookie consent solution written in vanilla JS. Amazing 🍺

RSS

• Includes RSS feed
• RSS icon feed can be enabled/disabled in footer

Content

• Robust example content included out of the box
• All photos, illustrations and icons included with this theme are royalty free

Netlify

• Ready to deploy to Netlify
• includes netlify.toml file

Github Pages

• Github pages ready

Changelog

Version 2.0 (Released Nov 24, 2023)

• Update to Jekyll Zerostatic framework. Includes new components, bug fixes and even more configuration options in the _config.yml

Version 1.6 (Released Oct 22, 2023)

• Add new privacy focused analytics providers Plausible & Umami, both GDPR compliant alternatives to Google Analytics.
• Add self hosted Google fonts, enabled by default!
• Add cookie banner - Cookieconsent - a lightweight, cutomizable, GDPR compliant cookie consent solution written in vanilla JS.
• Add new privacy friendly comments system - Commento
• Prevent loading of Disqus unless user needs to comment, prevents 3rd party cookie installation and data tracking from Disqus
• Use the Youtube no-cookie embed code when embedding videos
• Remove external Javascript from Mailchimp embed
• Improve RSS Feed
• Improvements to SEO meta tags and OG meta tags. More flexible to override on a per page basis
• Add support for Google Tag manager
• Update to Bootstrap 5.3.2
• Update to Jekyll 4.3
• Retest Github pages deployments
• Retest Netlify deployments
• Remove jekyll-feed plugin, we dont need it.

Version 1.2 (Released Oct 5, 2022)

• Add RSS functionality
• Add RSS Icon - can be enabled/disabled in _config.yaml
• Install jekyll-feed plugin

Version 1.1 (Released Jul 11, 2022)

• Update author component
• Add automatic blog category generation
• Improve category pages
• Minor css and bug fixes

Version 1.0 (Released Jun 21, 2022)

• Initial release 🎉