Overview

Jasper is a port of Ghost’s default theme Casper v1.3.7 for Jekyll. Inspired by Kasper, Jasper includes several additional features that make it closer to the original theme. It offers a live demo and includes features such as pagination, Google Analytics tracking, Disqus comments, toggleable sliding sidebar, and support for multiple authors.

Features

• Live demo
• Pagination
• Google Analytics tracking
• Disqus comments
• Author’s profile with picture
• Toggleable sliding sidebar
• Related posts view
• Tag descriptions
• Code Syntax Highlight
• RSS updated to Jekyll v3
• Support for Multiple Authors

Installation

To use Jasper, you have several options for building and deploying the site:

1. Build the site using GitHub Actions, which pushes the resulting files (\_site/ or ../jasper-pages/) to the gh-pages branch. You can refer to the jekyll\_build.yml file for more details on this approach.

2. Generate the site locally and push the resulting HTML to a GitHub repository. GitHub Pages will then host the site. To do this, clone the Jasper repository (master branch), and run bundle exec jekyll serve inside the directory. Upload the resulting \_site/ or ../jasper-pages/ contents to your repository (master branch for personal page or gh-pages branch for project page).

3. Build the site with Travis-CI and automatically push the generated HTML files to a gh-pages branch. This approach requires setting up Travis-CI for your personal fork. Refer to the documentation in \_config.yml and travis.yml for more details.

4. Deploy the static website with Jekyll-compatible hosters like Netlify, which allow for deployment from a GitHub repo and publishing using CDNs. Netlify has a free starter offer.

Summary

Jasper is a port of Casper, Ghost’s default theme, for Jekyll. It includes additional features and offers a live demo. Installation options include using GitHub Actions, generating the site locally, using Travis-CI, or deploying with Jekyll-compatible hosters like Netlify. The theme supports pagination, Google Analytics, Disqus comments, author profiles, related posts, tag descriptions, code syntax highlight, and multiple authors.