What is WhatATheme?

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. >You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run bundle exec jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

WhatATheme is a customizable Jekyll Portfolio theme which supports blogging. You can use this theme in order to create an elegant, fully responsive portfolio which includes

Home Page -

  • A Hero section - A section where you can outsource an image which will work as the background for the particular section; it also will include your name and a tagline which can be easily manipulated via the _config.yml file.
  • An About section - A section where you can include your image and a 60 word paragraph which again you can easily manipulate using the _config.yml file.
  • A Contact section - A section where you can include 3 direct ways to contact
    Ping on Messenger
    Send an Email
    Tweet on Twitter
    The contact section will also include 10 different social media buttons for your audience to follow.
    Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, GitHub, YouTube, Reddit, Behance, Dribbble & Spotify.

Blog -

The blog includes a horizontal card list where the latest articles are fetched from the _posts folder automatically in top-down format. It also includes an instant search box which matches your query from the title, description & content of your post and shows the result as soon as you type.
The blog card includes

  • Post Title
  • 300 words from the content of the post
  • The publish date
  • The time which will be required to read the post.

Projects -

The Projects page will include all the projects from the projects.yml file which is present in the _data folder.
Projects will be showcased in a card-list format where each card will contain

  • An image related to the project
  • A Project Title
  • A Project Description of about 80 words

Footer -

The footer includes

  • A small about the author widget which show the same Author Image as mentioned in the about section of the Home page which includes Name of the Author, Around 75 words about the author.
  • A more link widget which includes a link to any extra page that you’ve created and a Subscribe via RSS link.
  • A Recent posts widget which will include latest 3 posts.

Extra Features -

WhatATheme comes pre installed with

  • HTML Compressor - It’ll compress all the pages by removing any extra space or blank lines.
  • Google Analytics - A web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. For more information click here.

  • Disqus - A worldwide blog comment hosting service for web sites and online communities that use a networked platform. For more information about Disqus click here

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Installation

Step 1 - Setting up WhatATheme

Step 2 - Making changes via _config.yml

  • Open _config.yml file
  • Fill the available details accordingly
  • Commit the changes