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- Installation | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
Jekyll is lovingly maintained by the core team of volunteers The contents of this website are © 2025 under the terms of the MIT License
- Quickstart | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
Jekyll is a static site generator It takes text written in your favorite markup language and uses layouts to create a static website You can tweak the site’s look and feel, URLs, the data displayed on the page, and more
- Command Line Usage | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
Typically you’ll use jekyll serve while developing locally and jekyll build when you need to generate the site for production For a full list of options and their argument, see Build Command Options
- Themes | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
Jekyll has an extensive theme system that allows you to leverage community-maintained templates and styles to customize your site’s presentation Jekyll themes specify plugins and package up assets, layouts, includes, and stylesheets in a way that can be overridden by your site’s content
- Tutorials | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
Some of these techniques might even guide you through a supporting tool, script, service, or other hack used with your Jekyll site Feel free to include tutorials involving external services with Jekyll as well
- Liquid | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
Jekyll uses the Liquid templating language to process templates Generally in Liquid you output content using two curly braces e g {{ variable }} and perform logic statements by surrounding them in a curly brace percentage sign e g {% if statement %}
- Resources | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
Jekyll’s growing community produces wide variety of themes, plugins, tutorials and other resources that can be helpful Below is a collection of links to some of the most popular Jekyll resources
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