Documentation Jekyll Site

Based off the initial Wordpress redesign visible here (repo: https://github.com/museum-of-vertebrate-zoology/wp-arctos-theme )

View this at https://handbook.arctosdb.org

Creating new files

Save them as .markdown files. On GitHub pages, they may not render correctly with a different extension.

Organization

Different types of writeups are organized into Jekyll collections, kept in files that begin with YAML Front matter, like this sample file.

Placing the files into the appropriate directory will automatically sort them. They will not be listed if the title attribute contains the string "index".

The collection directories are:

• _documentation
• _how_to

Creating new collections

To create a collection, do the following:

1. Create a directory with a leading underscore and the name of the collection, replacing spaces with _. For example, My Awesome Collection becomes the directory _my_awesome_collection.
2. In ./_config.yml, under the collections item, add

my_awesome_collection:
  output: true

3. Create an index.html file for your new collection, and in the front matter, give it the layout collection_index.