Affiliates - Free Jekyll Theme

“Affiliates” is a blogging Jekyll theme for affiliate marketers. It has a clean, minimal, beautiful and modern look! This post is about the Jekyll template version but there is also the HTML Version for anyone interested.

“Affiliates” Jekyll Template - Features

Built for Jekyll
Compatible with Github pages
Featured Posts
Index Pagination
Post Categories
Prev/Next Link
Category Archives (this is not yet compatible with github pages though)
Integrations:
- Disqus Comments
- Google Analytics
- Mailchimp Integration
- Sharethis Integration
- Formspree.io Contact
Design Features:
- Bootstrap v4.0.0-alpha.6
- Font Awesome
- Masonry
Layouts:
- Default
- Post left sidebar
- Post right sidebar
- Page
- Archive

How to Use “Affiliates” Jekyll Template

If you aren’t familiar with Jekyll yet, you should know that it is a static site generator. It will transform your plain text into static websites and blogs. If you are a beginner we recommend you start with Jekyll’s Docs. Now if you know how to use Jekyll, let’s move on to using Affiliates template in Jekyll:

Download or Fork.

In your local project, open _config.yml. If your site is in root, for baseurl, make sure this is set to baseurl: /. Also, change your Google Analytics code, Disqus username, Authors, Mailchimp, ShareThis code (https://www.sharethis.com/) etc.
Affiliates requires 2 plugins:
- $ gem install jekyll-paginate
- $ gem install jekyll-archives.
Locate the files and customize:
- header & footer in default.html.
- homepage in index.html
- contact form in contact.html (https://formspree.io/)
- post sidebar in includes/sidebar.html
- sign up form in includes/newsletter.html
Start blogging by adding your .md files in _posts. You will see in examples in the download.
YAML front matter
- post featured - featured:true
- post featured image - image: assets/images/mypic.jpg
- page comments - comments:true
- meta description (optional) - description: "this is my meta description"

YAML Post Example:

    ---
    layout: post
    title:  "We all wait for summer"
    author: john
    categories: [ Jekyll, tutorial ]
    image: assets/images/5.jpg
    featured: true
    ---

YAML Post Sidebar Right Example:

    ---
    layout: post-sidebar-right
    title:  "We all wait for summer"
    author: john
    categories: [ Jekyll, tutorial ]
    image: assets/images/5.jpg
    featured: true
    ---

YAML Page Example

    ---
    layout: page
    title: Affiliates Template for Jekyll
    comments: true
    ---

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