Jekyll Migration | Theme fix

[karx]

As I see from the current codebase, we are using the minima theme, which is a good choice to start with.
If anyone wants to recommend any other theme, please feel free to do that here.

In the meantime, the following custom layouts would be needed: (to be added in _layouts)

• the landing/homepage
  This would include a paginated listing of all the "posts"
  

• Posts-detail page
  

And the following in includes to be reused in the layouts: (to be added in _includes)

• header
  

• footer
  

Let me know if I missing or overlooking something here.
I few thumbs up before I start the dev seems like a good idea to me.

Note: I am looking at https://blog.mozillaindia.org/ for the target look and feel of this.

[asdofindia]

The theme on wordpress is https://github.com/craigcook/frontierline-theme (the just "Frontierline" theme)

[Amorpheuz]

The previous and next functionality on posts would be nice too along with recent articles! Categories can be added once the functionality for the same is up.

I think we should have an issue with a task list which can be added to by maintainers based on suggestions along with who is working on what and what is up for grabs? It could be a single issue with a task list or a bunch of issues and the list being in projects as seen fit.

The repo can still take benefit of the ongoing Hacktoberfest to rapidly progress!

[asdofindia]

I'm on board @Amorpheuz. Please make multiple small issues rather than one big list. Shall give you triage access if you wish.

[Amorpheuz]

Sounds great! I will get a bunch of issues up over the weekend which will be up for grabs. I will also get the ones mentioned by @karx above into their separate issues and assign him the same.

[karx]

@Amorpheuz sounds like a great plan!
Looking forward to assigning some of them to myself.

[karx]

In my other Jekyll project I switched to using the theme as a regular-themes as compared to a gem-based theme. This translate to having all files our present in your Jekyll site directory. Makes things more explicit.

[Amorpheuz]

regular-themes do sound better in comparison to gem-based theme. I think it will make it easier for newcomers to Jekyll to jump into contributing. Though, I haven't used Jekyll very extensively and am unaware of the pros and cons of the two.

[asdofindia]

Regular theme is totally the right thing for our very much customized website. It is gem based at the moment only because that is the default on jekyll new

[cseas]

https://github.com/craigcook/frontierline-theme/tree/master/themes/frontierline

Is this the theme we're referring for our migration?

[srishti-nema]

I would like to work on this. How can I convert this theme to a gem-based theme and then to a regular one?

[karx]

Hi @srishti-nema thanks for taking the initiative.

The best way imo for now, would be to just copy the files from the theme gem’s directory into our Jekyll site directory.

Mostly the files in _layout namely:

• home
• default
• page
• post
  from https://github.com/jekyll/minima/tree/master/_layouts

and _includes

• header
• footer
• social
  from https://github.com/jekyll/minima/tree/master/_includes

I would recommend just for now, changing the almost lorem ipsum text from the theme to MozillaIndia Blog, and raising a PR.

This would really help move this process.

Reading more about how themes work: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/. All is here.

[karx]

Closing this issue in as now:

• To Regular theme tracked at Move from gem-based to a regular theme #19
• Custom Footer tracked at Improve Look and feel of footer #9
• Custom Header tracked at Improve Look and feel of header #8
• Custom Post tracked at Improve look and feel of Post Page #7