Setup: Reference The Template

• Plugins
• (Jekyll) Document Types
• Data
• Includes
• References

🌤 2021-11-18

🌧 2022-03-10

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If you just want to add some of the features of this template to your pre-existing site and aren’t so concerned with specific configurations, you’re in the right place. I’m going to assume you don’t really need help setting up the underlying technologies to run a jekyll project, as you probably have your own already.

If you do need a refresher on the basics, check out the starter setup. If you are interested in the configuration specifics, you can check out the tinkerer setup.

Plugins 🐝

If you’re starting from your own project or just want to add mechanics similar to jekyll-garden’s, the main thing to be aware of is that there are three plugins this template relies on heavily besides jekyll itself:

• jekyll-wikirefs
  • Parses [[wikilinks]] across the site and renders them in-place as html a tags while adding link metadata to the linked documents.
• jekyll-semtree
  • Processes index doctypes to build the semantic tree and tree graph.
• jekyll-graph
  • Generates the graph in the sidebar. The tree graph graph is generated from semantic tree and the net web graph graph is generated from wikirefs.

(Jekyll) Document Types 🐝

There are several document types in this template, but there are two in particular that do most of the heavy-lifting:

• state: Provides the possible status states for all documents.
• index doctype: Markdown files that build the semantic tree and tree graph.
• entry doctype: Wikipedia-style entries that fill out the semantic tree.
• book doctype: Book summaries and outlines.

Data 🐝

• theme: Multiple theming schemes are possible and are implemented similarly to this color theme switcher.
• emojis: Customizable emojis not generated from states.

Includes 🐝

Several includes are imported and/or derived from other sources:

• Jekyll Codex
  • connect.html
  • cookie-consent.html
  • share.html
• Pure Liquid
  • anchor-headings.html
  • toc.html
• Recursive branching
  • branch.html
• Digital Garden Jekyll Template
  • hp-tooltip.html

References 🐝

Other static-site generation (SSG) projects I would recommend to reference alongside this one:

• Digital Garden Jekyll Template
• Gollum
• TiddlyWiki