Turbocharge your Jekyll Website

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utterances

There are some options in this space. Some have privacy concerns, while other need hosting. So a hacky way is to use GitHub issues as comments. Some wrappers make it easy. One such example is Utterances. It is simple and easy to set up. Just add permissions to the repository and add a small script in the layouts that require comments. Ensure to add async to ensure it does not impact load time.

#Social Networks #Project Management #Commenting Service 50 social mentions

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MailChimp

If you want to give your users a way to be contacted when you want to announce something, you can set up an email subscription. One popular option is to use MailChimp. There is a free tier that should be sufficient for most starting bloggers. Once you set up an account there, Click on Create > Signup Forms > Embedded form Now you can copy the code given and paste it under _includes. You can modify the HTML and CSS to make it look and feel in tune with your existing theme. Assuming you created a partial called mailchimp.html, you can include it in different layouts. After adding my customizations, it looks like this. Much better right?

#Email Marketing #Email Marketing Platforms #Email Marketing Automation 85 social mentions

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Jekyll

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 180 social mentions

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Google Lighthouse

All these results in a suboptimal experience for the users. With some simple enhancements, we can boost up the Lighthouse score of our site a lot. Site Score on Lighthouse.

#Website Monitoring #Performance Monitoring #Uptime Monitoring 87 social mentions