cognitive137/sana137.in

First things first

For updating the website (assuming you have the repo locally):

yarn depoly

1. Go to GitHub repo Settings.
2. Look for "GitHub Pages" from bottom.
3. Update "Custom domain" accordingly.

Usage note

Getting the repo

# Run the following commands
git clone https://github.com/cognitive137/sana137.in
cd path/to/cloned/repo
yarn # to install dependencies

Adding new blogs

1. Create a folder in blogs, say newBlogPost.
2. In the folder newBlogPost, create a markdown file index.md.
3. Put the content of the blog in the index.md file.

Adding background to tags

Adding cover to tags is handled via an array of objects. That array is located at ./src/tagData/index.js.

That file contains an array tagData. Each element of tagData, must be an object, with two keys, tag and cover.

Each object should match:

{
  tag: 'unique tag here',
  cover: 'www.example.com/path/to/cover'
}

Make sure you don't repeat tags in array in ./src/tagData/index.js, else none will be chosen.

Frontmatter

In every blog post, it is necessary to start the blog post with the following content:

---
cover: 'www.example.com/path/to/cover/img'
date: 'yyyy-mm-dd'
excerpt: 'Add excerpt here'
page: 'true/false'
path: '/uri-to-blog-post'
tags: ['some', 'tags', 'in', 'lowercase']
title: 'Blog Post’s Title'

---

Note

1. All except the excerpt are necessary fields. Make sure you would not be able to escape the single or double quotes in excerpt, so make use of enclosing alternatives.

2. In case if you do not wish to have any tags, keep that parameter to [''].

3. Use the yyyy-mm-dd date format.

4. Make sure path starts with /, and is unique.

Testing your addition renders perfectly

Run the following commands to test if the site works fine locally.

yarn clean
yarn start
# Look in the terminal on which port the site is live.
# navigate to localhost:port/path-to-new-blog

Updating the website

Run the following commands to update the website:

yarn clean
yarn build
yarn deploy

Run the following commands to push the local changes to remote:

git add .
git commit -m "Added new blog (or) made some changes"
git push

Note about styling

Only the Footer functional component (src/components/footer.js) imports layout.css.

sana137.in's Issues

Using plugin for Disqus comments

Hi.
I was reading about gatsby-plugin-disqus.
I haven't evaluated pros and cons, but I would suggest to evaluate the plugin, and if it is good, consider moving to the plugin rather than class based component.