Theme Information

  • Name: Norlin - A Beautiful Dark Blog Theme for Jekyll
  • Norlin is a creative modern theme with a clean design specially created for dark themes lovers. The Norlin theme is fully responsive and looks great on mobile devices and has a beautiful and modern design that is best suited for your personal or corporate blog. You can easily customize the theme by changing the accent colors, the arrangement of the widgets, etc.
  • Current Version: 1.5
  • Released: 14/10/2024
  • Creator: Artem Sheludko

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Configurations

Norlin theme comes with different customizations in the _data/settings.yml and _config.yml files:

settings config

Deployment

To run the theme locally, navigate to the theme directory and run bundle install to install the dependencies, then run bundle exec jekyll serve to start the Jekyll server.

I would recommend checking the Deployment Methods page on Jekyll website.

Posts

To create a new post, you can create a new markdown file inside the _posts directory by following the recommended file structure.

post

You can set the description, tags, featured or not, and the post image.

The featured key is to mark the post as a featured post. This will add a simple star icon (☆) to the right corner of the post card.

Add post images to /images/ directory.

Full Width Image

To have wide images in posts or pages simply add #wide word with the hashtag at the end of image path like in the example below:

![River]({{site.baseurl}}/images/15.jpg#wide)

Tags

For tags, try to not add space between two words, for example, Ruby on Rails, could be something like (ruby-on-rails, Ruby_on_Rails, or Ruby-on-Rails).

Pages

To create a new page, just create a new markdown file inside the _pages directory.

The following is the about.md file that you can find as an example included in the theme with the configurations you can set.

page

Things you can change are: title and image name.

This allows you to set the links inside your menu. Add each one as a list item with a title and url. Make sure you leave a trailing / at the end of links to category pages (e.g. /about/).

navigation

Disqus Comments

Norlin Theme comes with Disqus comments enabled.

Open _data/settings.yml file, and change the anvodstudio-demo value on line 65 with your Disqus account shortname.

disqus

That’s all you need to setup Disqus from the theme side. If you get any issue regarding that comments are unable to load. First, make sure you have registered your website with Disqus (Step 1).

And also check Disqus troubleshooting guide if you still have issues.

Google Analytics

To integrate Google Analytics, open _data/settings.yml, and add your Google Analytics identifier.

analytics

Update favicon

You can find the current favicon (favicon.ico) inside the theme root directory, just replace it with your new favicon.

Credits

I have used the following scripts, fonts or other files as listed.

Support

If you have any questions or feedback about the theme, please feel free to contact me by mail.

Contact Artem

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