- Slightly reworked margins and position for avatar image to resolve an alignment issue on Safari.
- Changed the width at which the navbar collapses to a higher threshold because most modern non-mobile browsers are >1000px
- Fixed bug where navbar secondary level dropdown items didn't inherit te same colour as the primary navbar links
- Fixed bug where the navbar "burger" collapsed button didn't always revert back to a light colour
- Fixed bug where using an image as a navbar title did not render in GitHub Project pages that did not have a custom domain
- Fixed issue where image thumbnails on the feed page were always forced into a square rather than maintaining a proper image aspect ratio
- Added support for Patreon in the social network links in the footer
- Fixed bug where special characters in the title led to broken share tags (#744)
One of the major changes in this version is that a lot of time was spent on rethinking the entire SEO and social media sharing model (how a page looks on eg. Google, Twitter, Facebok). It was redesigned to be more simple and customizable. The new documentation has a section dedicated to SEO and social media sharing of a page. Unfortunately some changes that are not backwards-compatible had to be made.
- Renamed
description
YAML parameter toshare-description
to be more clear - Renamed
description
config setting torss-description
since it was only used in RSS (the FAQ explains the difference between YAML parameters and config settings if you're confused) - Removed YAML parameter
use-site-title
(you can now specify the exact title usingshare-title
) - Removed undocumented YAML parameters
meta-title
andmeta-description
- Removed
link-tags
config setting because it wasn't necessary. If you use tags, there will now always be a tags page created; if you don't use tags there won't be a tags page. - The YAML parameter
show-avatar
is now true by default. This has always been the case for GitHub Pages users, but not forremote_theme
users. For consistency, it's now the default for everyone. (#715)
- Added
full-width
YAML parameter to allow having full-width pages - Added
feed_show_excerpt
config setting to show/hide the post excerpts on the feed page - Added
feed_show_tags
config setting to show/hide the list of tags on post previews on the feed page - Added
share-title
YAML parameter to give control over the search engine/social media title - Added
last-updated
YAML parameter to show a "Last Updated on" date for blog posts - Added
before-content
andafter-content
YAML parameters that allow you to add some common HTML before the main content of a page (below the title) or after the main content (above the footer). Works in a similar way tofooter-extra
. - Added
head-extra
YAML parameter which is similar tofooter-extra
but is used to include custom HTML code in a page's<head>
tag - Added
site-js
config setting to provide JavaScript files that are used on all pages in the site
- Improved the
footer-extra
YAML parameter to support multiple files instead of only a single file - Added automatic navbar color detection (#702)
- When
nav-short
is turned on, the avatar will also be shorter - Changed navbar and footer background colour to be slightly darker, for better contrast with the default white page background for accessibility reasons
- Changed the behaviour of
site-css
to include site-wide CSS file before instead of after page-specific files - Renamed internal css/js files from "main" to "beautifuljekyll" to make it easier for users to troubleshoot
- Added alt text to all images for better accessibility
- Made thumbnail images square instead of circles, as users reported that circles cut off important parts of images
- Fixed rendering issues with
nav-short
parameter that caused the body of the page to start too low - Fixed some CSS styles that broke during the bootstrap 4 migration (#716)
- Upgraded kramdown to version 2.3.0 to fix security issues
- Upgraded jQuery to version 3.5.1 to fix a couple security vulnerabilities with the previous version
- Added Open Graph
site_name
meta field to pages automatically - Added
text-col
config setting for main text color (#694) - Added
keywords
config setting to set the meta keywords on all pages (for SEO purposes) (#691) - Added
mobile-theme-col
config setting to allow a mobile theme colour (#692) - Added
site-css
config setting in the config file to provide CSS files that are used on all pages in the site (#695) - Added YAML parameter
description
: creates the meta description on a page, intended to provide a brief description of the page for search engines and when the page is shared (#690)
- Fixed staticman comments UI that was broken since the migration to bootstrap 4
- BREAKING CHANGE Replace
image
YAML parameter withthumbnail-img
to be more clear - MAJOR BEHAVIOUR CHANGE Don't use the thumbnail as the avatar image
- Cover image will automatically be used as thumbnail if none is provided
- Image to share on social media will use the cover image or thumbnail if none is provided
- All images (social media share, thumbnail, cover) can use either relative or absoluate paths.
- Fixed issue where if a dropdown menu was the last item in the menu bar, it did not have a proper margin on the right
- Added social network links: Mastodon (#646), Google Scholar, ORCID (#670)
- Added support for sharing pages on new social network: VK (#657)
- Use Open Graph type 'article' for blog posts (#669)
- Use Twitter's large sumary card (large image) when there is a cover image, thumbnail image, or share image specified (#668)
- Made post images in the feed page smaller on smaller devices
- Fixed jQuery version in staticman (#671)
- BREAKING CHANGE Upgraded from Bootstrap 3.3.2 to 4.4.1. This involved a major rewrite of most components. This shouldn't affect any users unless you have custom HTML/CSS code which the new Bootstrap could have broken.
- BREAKING CHANGE Renamed
bigimg
YAML parameter tocover-img
- BREAKING CHANGE Removed
googlefonts
YAML parameter since googlefonts are just CSS so they can be loaded viaext-css
- BREAKING CHANGE Upgraded from jQuery 1.11.2 to 3.4.2. This should not affect most people
- Added
navbar-border-col
setting in the config file - Added accessibility features where possible
- Made the theme completely responsive by rewriting all CSS to use 'rem' instead of 'px'
- Rewrote and simplified some JavaScript code to use CSS or Bootstrap alternatives that weren't available in 2015
- Removed most of the sample posts so that users only have two sample posts to learn from
- Improvements to the README instructions
- Added YAML parameter
footer-extra
for including custom content in the footer - Fixed issue: linking to a specific part of a page resulted in scrolling too far (#69)
- Added YAML parameter
nav-short
to have navbar permanently collapsed - Added social network link: Calendly
- Fixed bug where RSS link in footer was showing even when turned off
- Added social network link: Telegram (#625) (thanks @mashed-potatoes)
- Moved the demo site to an independent URL: https://beautifuljekyll.com
- Major documentation overhaul and cleanup of old files
- Fixed a few bugs from the remote_theme migration
- Beautiful-Jekyll v2.0.0 available as an official Ruby gem
- Beautifull-Jekyll now supports the
remote_theme
config (#339) (thanks @gpotter2 and @skalee) - Consolidated the demo site, the ruby gem, and the master branch into one
- Added a
home
layout and used it in the index page - Added readtime support for the post header (#622) (thanks @MutMatt and @rubyreads)
- Removed the dependency on
_data
folder since it doesn't get copied when usingremote_theme
(#614) - Added support for configuring lang attribute on
html
tag (#608) (thanks @skalee) - Added ability to disable round logo (thanks @gpotter2)
- Added support for Utterances comments (#596) (thanks @colynn)
- Removed 'just-comments' as it's getting killed at the end of the year
- Upgraded font-awesome to 5.12.1 (#587) (thanks @cketti)
2018-12-24 Add support for Staticman comments (#440) (thanks @VincentTam)
2018-10-19 Move Google Analytics to the head (#419) (thanks @jpvicari)
2018-06-08 Add support for Facebook comments (#350) (thanks @npes87184)
2018-02-22 Automatically generate sitemap (#323) (thanks @JosemyDuarte)
2018-01-18 Add clickable tags to each post and a tags index page, works for GitHub sites (#307) (thanks @OCram85)
2018-01-14 Redo Dockerfile (#302) (thanks @jennydaman)
2018-01-06 More color personalization options (#297 and #299) (thanks @jennydaman)
2018-01-05 Abstract the social networks logic (thanks @OCram85)
2018-01-03 Avatar image no longer causes a ghost click (thanks @alefi87)
2017-10-16 Add GitHub buttons to posts (#265) (thanks @yonicd)
2017-09-04 Ability to change colour/image of navbar/footer/body
2017-08-17 Add support for notification, error, and warning boxes in markdown (#227) (thanks @OCram85)
2017-08-12 Add social buttons for twitch, yelp, and steam (#234) (thanks @TheRealBenForce)
2017-03-30 Make the footer contact links friendly for screen readers (thanks @eugenius1)
2017-03-30 Started a CHANGELOG file (thanks @eugenius1)
2017-01-28 Add Subresource Integrity (SRI) support (#164) (thanks @tony-ho)
2017-01-09 Add Google Tag Manager Integration (#157) (thanks @csarigoz)
2017-01-06 Add options to configure HTML document title (#154) (thanks @tony-ho)
2016-12-25 Allow dynamic images on each blog post (#143) (thanks @bbritten)
2016-12-15 Support title-img
config param to have image in the navbar instead of text
2016-12-08 Add support for phone numbers in footer; fix #136
2016-12-06 Update gemfile (#134) (thanks @stephentuso)
2016-10-09 Add Docker deployment (#114) (thanks @mangar)
2016-08-06 Add social share buttons for posts (thanks @rtlee9)
2016-07-29 Add CSS styling to code chunks
2016-07-27 Add clickable tags that lead to a tag page (doesn't work for GitHub hosted sites) (thanks @epwalsh)
2016-07-21 Add support for twitter cards (sharing on Twitter will be better); fixes #70
2016-03-18 Support full-width images in page headers; fixes #37
2016-03-18 Support menus in navigation bar
2016-02-07 Avatar is now conditional (thanks @hristoyankov)
2016-02-02 Migrate (forced to...) to jekyll 3
2016-01-22 Make sure not to include JQuery twice, fixes #29
2015-11-19 Support external links in navigation bar; fixes #3
... Many small changes because the site was in its infancy
2015-03-12 Beautiful Jekyll version 0.0000001 is released!