A Jekyll website for photographers and photo bloggers.
Lens is a photo gallery Jekyll theme designed specially for photographers and photo bloggers.
Jekyll Lens uses Jekyll Static Site Generator (SSG) to generate the website and GitHub Pages to host it.
✅ Free & Easy setup
✅ No coding required
You won't need any expensive server, just to host a photo blog. You don't even need to code anything. Just follow the steps below to setup your photo blog in minutes.
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Fork this repository by clicking the Fork button at the top right.
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Enable GitHub Pages from the repository settings.
Your site will be automatically generated and published athttps://<username>.github.io/<repository_name>
. You can also add your custom domain if you want.
(For more details visit: GitHub Pages). -
Modify the
_config.yml
file to your liking.
More information on each key in the_config.yml
file has been described in the file itself, as comments. -
Upload your pictures in the
gallery
folder (and remove the default ones if you want). -
Now, visit your website and see the magic! 🎉
If you liked this project, please ⭐ Star this repository to show your love.
If you have a bug or an idea, feel free to open a new issue.
If you want to contribute, make your changes or enhancements and open a pull request.
Feedback and bug reports are not only welcome, but strongly encouraged. 😄
The HTML5 version of Lens template is designed by HTML5UP. A special thanks to them for the design, which I further enhanced for use with Jekyll.