Welcome to Research by Muellners
Welcome, it's great to have you here. This is a Getting Started guide for you to start sharing your ideas in Muellners ecosystem and on the Internet.
A few things you should know upfront:
Live in action: https://research.muellners.org
This is a static blog generator and starter gatsby repo. A port of Casper v3 a theme from Ghost for GatsbyJS using TypeScript.
Getting Started
Clone this repo.
git clone https://github.com/muellners/research --depth=1
Remove .git folder and setup a new one
rm -rf .git && git init
Edit website-config.ts with your website settings. Either disable subscribe or setup a mailchimp list and add the form action and hidden field input name.
Now push to whatever repo you want!
Progress
- emotion / component styles
- home page
- tag page
- author page
-
blog page
- subscribe form - using mailchimp
- full width images in markdown? - not sure if possible
- multiple post authors
- 404 page
- subscribe modal/overlay
- rss feed (on production build)
-
polish ✨
- meta tags
- page titles
- pagination
Deploy to Netlify
How to configure Google Analytics
Edit gatsby-config.js
and add your tracking ID
{
resolve: `gatsby-plugin-google-analytics`,
options: {
// Here goes your tracking ID
trackingId: 'UA-XXXX-Y',
// Puts tracking script in the head instead of the body
head: true,
// IP anonymization for GDPR compliance
anonymize: true,
// Disable analytics for users with `Do Not Track` enabled
respectDNT: true,
// Avoids sending pageview hits from custom paths
exclude: ['/preview/**'],
// Specifies what percentage of users should be tracked
sampleRate: 100,
// Determines how often site speed tracking beacons will be sent
siteSpeedSampleRate: 10,
},
},
How to edit your site title and description
Edit gatsby-config.js
section siteMetadata
siteMetadata: {
title: 'My awesome site name',
description: 'This is a description for my site',
siteUrl: 'https://mysite.com', // full path to blog - no ending slash
},
How to adjust pagination
In gatsby-node.js
, edit the postsPerPage
constant. The default value is
six posts per page.
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