Disable the Rouge - Jekyll's default syntax highlighter

By default Jekyll version 3, ships with Rouge syntax highlighter. For some reason, you may want to disable it. For example, if you replace the built-in Rouge to another syntax highlighter such as Prism.js or your own custom highlighter.

Fixing the Jekyll + GitHub Metadata warning

We can set up a local version of our Jekyll GitHub Pages website to preview our website before making the changes public. But when I run the jekyll serve command it throws the following error message:

GitHub Metadata: No GitHub API authentication could be found. Some fields may be missing or have incorrect data.

Syntax Highlighting in Jekyll

Jekyll has built in support for Syntax Highlighting of over 100 languages. You can have code snippets highlighted so that they are easier to read on your GitHub Pages website. In this post I will show you how you can integrate Rouge into your Jekyll setup.

Integrate Flatr button to Jekyll website

Flattr is a free and easy way to earn money from blog posts. My Github hosted Jekyll website is being used primarily as a blog as you can see. By placing a small Flattr button at the end of each blog post, just above the comments section, I can ensure that visitors of my blog have an opportunity to thank me for the article. In this article, I will show you how to easily use Flattr to show “Thanks” button in Jekyll.

Add icon-fonts to Adobe Muse website

The beauty of icon-fonts is that they are in essence, fonts. Which means they can be used much like any other piece of text. Unlike images they can have their colour changed easily, can be scaled and are lightweight in download terms. And they are fully responsive and retina friendly. The huge choice available at Font Awesome, Bootstrap and Google font icons means that you should find the exact graphic you are looking for and when combined with other muse assets you can quickly and easily build buttons, graphics and widgets. In this article you’ll learn how to use and customise the Font Awesome, Bootstrap and Google font icons in any Muse website.