Make your own blog using just MD files

(Yes, no need to learn html coding to make your own blog.)

Prequisites

Make sure you have

• A repl.it account (Preferred)
• A Github account

BEGIN

Example here

• Make a new Github Repository, and preferrably keep it empty.

• Import the Repo to Repl.it

• Add an index.md file

• Inside of your index.md file, add this code -

---
title: BLOG TITLE HERE
---

• Now, add a _config.yml file

• Add this code to it and edit as necesary

theme: minima
title: My Blog
author: <ur name>
email: <ur email>
description: > 
  description here
# social links
github_username:  <username here> # DO NOT include the @ character, or else the build will fail!

show_excerpts: true # set to false to remove excerpts on the homepage

The github_username is not required.

• Make a folder called _posts

  • This is where your posts will go

• Add this file to it - YEAR-MM-DD-Title-of-post.md

• Add this base code to it

---
title: "Post Title"
date: 2020-12-19
---



___ 


### Post Title
___

content here

Now commit changes. Repeat these steps every time you make a new post.

• Commit all of your changes to Github.

• Go to Github Settings

• Scroll Down, to Gitub Pages

• Select branch as main, and folder as /(root)

• Then, wait for a few minutes. If you check back later, it should be green and it will show you a link to your blog.

• To add a post, repeat above post steps, site automatically updates.

To use a custom domain

To use a custom domain, add a file called CNAME. The CNAME file should have only your domain. When setting up the domain, set the CNAME DNS Record as <github username>.github.io

Hope this helped!