As websites and blogs continue to grow, so can the amount of user-uploaded content like images and videos — especially when your site has multiple team members and writers. Over time, it can be tricky to figure out what’s actually used and what’s just collecting dust. We recently helped a customer clean up 5 gigabytes(!!) of unused assets, and you might be surprised how much digital clutter is lurking on your site too. Let’s dive in and see how much data you can free from your Jekyll ...| Siteleaf
Forestry.io, a fellow static site CMS, has announced it will be shutting down on April 21, 2023 (see Forestry.io’s End of Life announcement). While this news is definitely a pain for website owners and developers who support these sites, we welcome those looking for a Forestry.io replacement to migrate their static websites to Siteleaf for free (and we’re here to help!). Siteleaf is a content management system with many of the same features, so we think you’ll feel at home here. Why mig...| Siteleaf
The Siteleaf Community now has a new home on GitHub Discussions where you can get help, vote on new features, and share what you’re working on! To get started we created topics for: ❓ Community Support: Ask the community for help. 💡 Feature Requests: Vote and share ideas for new features. 🙌 Show & Tell: Show off something you’ve made. 💬 General Discussion: Everything else. GitHub Discussions will replace our existing Slack community, and we look forward to building a more open,...| Siteleaf
Today we are officially launching our much requested affiliate program: Siteleaf VIP We know a lot of our customers use Siteleaf with clients (and enjoy referring friends and colleagues), so we’re excited to say thanks and give back! For every new user who signs up with your unique VIP link, you’ll earn a 30% commission for any paid sites they create. Depending on the plan chosen, you could earn over $1,000/year for a single referral — which recurs for as long as the site is active. For...| Siteleaf
Jekyll 4.0 is out in the world, and brings upon many improvements over 3.x. Notably, your site should build much faster now thanks to super-powered caching and content transformations. You can see a full list of changes here. While GitHub Pages is still pinned to Jekyll 3.8.x, it’s possible to start using Jekyll 4 today with a little help from Siteleaf. Check out our upgrade guide to get started: Upgrading from Jekyll 3.x to 4.x → Here’s to speedy rendering! 🍃| Siteleaf
Clicking on links that are broken is a bad experience for users, and it can even affect your SEO. Thankfully, it’s really easy to automate the process of checking the links on your site using html-proofer.| Siteleaf
Antfood is a creative audio studio whose website we adore. It’s one of the only portfolios where exploring and finding hidden gems feels like an exciting quest and a considered part of the user journey, rather than an afterthought. We chatted with Wilson Brown, ECD and Partner at Antfood, about curiosity, collaboration, and the year ahead.| Siteleaf
Summer is the time for sun, sea, and Siteleaf. No, really. Lots of festivals use Siteleaf to manage their sites. Siteleaf makes it easy for content creators to update static sites while still optimizing for site speed.| Siteleaf
This is a guest post by David Darnes, creator of the Alembic theme. By nature, any well structured site that has easily editable content is ‘themeable’ — a layer, or skin, that presents content in the way the owner or creator intended; Jekyll is no different. Pages, posts and any other form of formatted content can be segregated from the templating files. Themes for Jekyll have been around for a while, but the process of installing a theme was a bit clunky. Content files and templating ...| Siteleaf
