Monty

Monty is a Jekyll theme inspired by CSS Naked Day. It has just enough styling to make it appealing and different, yet is almost as stripped back as the Emperor parading in his full monty.

Monty is designed for blogging on GitHub Pages. It is a simple theme consisting of only a home page and your blog posts. You can preview the theme here.

Installation

To use the Monty theme, add the following to your site’s _config.yaml:

remote_theme: brolun/jekyll-theme-monty
plugins:
    - jekyll-remote-theme
    - jekyll-feed
    - jekyll-seo-tag

Optionally, if you would like to preview your site locally, add the following to your site’s Gemfile:

gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins

Customizing

Configuration variables

Monty requires the following variable to be set in your site’s _config.yml:

title: [Your site's title]

Additionally, you may choose to set the following optional variable:

locale: [A locale code; 'en_US' is default]

Front matter variables

Monty is not designed for sorting blog posts according to categories, tags, or other front matter variables.

Favicon

If you want your site to display a favicon, simply add a favicon.ico image to the root folder.

SEO tag and RSS Feed plugins

Monty uses the Jekyll SEO tag plugin. You can read about how to further configure the SEO tag plugin here.

Monty also uses the Jekyll Feed plugin. The plugin generates an Atom/RSS feed of your blog posts. You can read about the Feed plugin here.

Development

If you would like to preview the theme locally (for example, in the process of proposing a change):

Clone the theme’s repository using git clone https://github.com/brolun/jekyll-theme-monty.git.
cd into the theme’s directory.
Run bundle install to install the necessary dependencies.
Run bundle exec jekyll serve to start the preview server.
Visit http://localhost:4000 in your browser to preview the theme.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.