How to add a blog entry

How to add a blog entry

1. Create a new file in the posts/ directory
2. Filename is YYYY-MM-DD-article.markdown
3. File has following top matter: ``` — layout: post slug: lower-hyphen-case-name title: “Sentence title” date: YYYY-MM-DD 01:00:00 categories:
   • tech tags:
   • javascript
   • html5
   • mapbox — ```
4. Note that date might affect publishing…
5. For convention article in the filename should match the value of slug in the YAML
6. Push to github

WARNING

Do not start tags with a number. It fails, and you don’t even get a useful error message…!

Links:

https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-as-a-static-site-generator-with-github-pages/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24098792/how-to-force-github-pages-build

https://pages.github.com/

https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet#tables

https://gist.github.com/clintel/1155906/71b2ab2e4444cb826b45f9988d067d1dd1edcc2c

Emoji: https://gist.github.com/roachhd/1f029bd4b50b8a524f3c and https://gist.github.com/rxaviers/7360908

Page linking: [https://stackoverflow.com/a/41213193]

Markdown:

• remember to wrap raw links in [] or <>
• to make a table scroll horizontala, wrap it in a div with whitespace and use a style to set overflow-x
• internal page linking:

    [Part 1](\{\{ site.baseurl }}\{\% link _posts/filename.markdown %})
  

  • note the backslashes are not part of this - I need to stop kramdown from interpreting the above