This annotated example shows home-page source and sample content from
personal-blog.
It runs inside the documentation site, using this site’s skin and configuration;
it is not the standalone example’s home page. The full folder includes its own
Gemfile and _config.yml, with no publishing workflow.
For preparation, preview and publication, follow Run and publish a starter example.
Home-page header
---
layout: indexcategory
title: My journal
subtitle: Stories, places and everyday discoveries
header_type: base
include_collection: posts
index_sort: date
index_items: 12
---
Home-page content
A personal journal with recent stories.
Sample story
Source: 2026-01-01-first-post.md.
Its settings enable the features illustrated below:
---
title: A first story
layout: default
header_type: post
show_date: true
show_author: true
include_on_feed: true
---
Write a short introduction to your story here. This first paragraph becomes
its excerpt unless you provide an explicit excerpt in front matter.
A place to begin
Replace this sample with your own text and photographs.
Site configuration
# Edit title, description, repository, url and baseurl before publishing.
remote_theme: dieghernan/chulapa
# The default branch includes development features. Append @TAG to pin a release.
title: My journal
description: Stories, places and everyday discoveries
repository: username/site
url: https://username.github.io
baseurl: /site
locale: en-US
plugins:
- jekyll-remote-theme
- jekyll-include-cache
- jekyll-github-metadata
- jekyll-paginate
- jekyll-sitemap
exclude: [Gemfile, Gemfile.lock, README.md, vendor]
kramdown:
input: GFM
chulapa-skin:
skin: journal
navbar:
brand:
title: My journal
nav:
- title: Home
url: /
defaults:
- scope:
path: ""
type: posts
values:
layout: default
header_type: post
include_on_feed: true
show_date: true