Marketing site template for Jekyll. Browse through a live demo. Increase the web presence of your brand with this configurable theme.
Hydra was made by CloudCannon, the Cloud CMS for Jekyll.
Find more templates, themes and step-by-step Jekyll tutorials at CloudCannon Academy.
- Contact form
- Pre-built pages
- Pre-styled components
- Blog with pagination
- Post category pages
- Disqus comments for posts
- Staff and author system
- Configurable footer
- Optimised for editing in CloudCannon
- RSS/Atom feed
- SEO tags
- Google Analytics
- Add your site and author details in
_config.yml. - Add your Google Analytics and Disqus keys to
_config.yml. - Get a workflow going to see your site's output (with CloudCannon or Jekyll locally).
Hydra was built with Jekyll version 3.3.1, but should support newer versions as well.
Install the dependencies with Bundler:
$ bundle installRun jekyll commands through Bundler to ensure you're using the right versions:
$ bundle exec jekyll serveHydra is already optimised for adding, updating and removing pages, staff, advice, company details and footer elements in CloudCannon.
- Add, update or remove a post in the Posts collection.
- The Staff Author field links to members in the Staff collection.
- Documentation pages are organised in the navigation by category, with URLs based on the path inside the
_docsfolder. - Change the defaults when new posts are created in
_posts/_defaults.md.
- Preconfigured to work with CloudCannon, but easily changed to another provider (e.g. FormSpree).
- Sends email to the address listed in company details.
- Reused around the site to save multiple editing locations.
- Add
excluded_in_search: trueto any documentation page's front matter to exclude that page in the search results.
- Exposed as a data file to give clients better access.
- Set in the Data / Navigation section.
- Exposed as a data file to give clients better access.
- Set in the Data / Footer section.