How to blog on GitHub

I told myself to make this post three months ago

Jekyll sets me up with a _posts folder for the posts. I just write out new posts in markdown format in that folder to start and save them with the date in 2016-5-26- format.

Useful formatting Markdown for posts

Posts should start with layout and title in this format:

---
layout: post
title: How to blog on GitHub
---

Tips found here: Markdown Cheatsheet

That was just [text](url.com)

Adding a “!” in front makes an image.

Can upload with { {site.url} }/public/image.jpg without the spaces.

See? http://davidpottingerdesign.github.io

Look at it

I made a script for this already back in “Linux Shell Scripting 1”. And once that goes through, I can ctrl+c out and use the shell to put the post on GitHub.

And then put it on GitHub

This is the easy part, if I can remember the commands!

Start off with a git add .

Then proceed to git commit -m "message"

And then a git push origin master

And at this point I give my github username and password.

Piece of cake! Works for me. Wouldn’t script this though, too much input.