Enabling others to comment on your posts is a nice to have feature for a blog. Disqus is an online tool which can be used to do this. It is pretty easy to integrate with your Jekyll Site.
Responsive YouTube for Jekyll
A huge shout-out goes to eduardoboucas for figuring this out. He has written a long blog post on this.
He fixes the responsiveness issues by adding a few classes to the Style Sheets and by creating a partial that gets rendered by Jekyll’s Templating Engine.
Enabling Emojis on Jekyll
It is nice to have Emojis in a blog. Jemoji is a Jekyll plugin to generate emojis in your Jekyll Blog.
The installation of the plugin is simple. Add the below lines to your _config.yml
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Scrolling with the Highlighter
You will notice that the highlighted text seems to overflow on smaller screens.
Responsive Images for Jekyll
Jekyll does not support responsive images out of the box. There are plugins that can do that.
But unfortunately GitHub does not support any of them.
Getting Started with Jekyll
GitHub Pages are awesome! Who doesn’t want to host a website directly from the repo. No Continuous Integration Servers. No Apache Web Servers. You just need your HTML.