A curated list of awesome tools, themes, plugins, and resources for Jekyll, the static site generator used by GitHub Pages and beyond.
Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware static site generator perfect for personal, project, or documentation websites. This list gathers useful tools, templates, and inspiration to help you build better Jekyll-powered sites.
- Getting Started
- Themes
- Plugins
- Deployment
- SEO & Analytics
- Content & Blogging
- Tools & Extensions
- Learning Resources
- Boilerplates & Templates
- Showcases
- Related Awesome Lists
- Minimal Mistakes – Versatile and popular theme for portfolios, blogs, and documentation.
- Chirpy – Feature-rich blog theme with comments, search, and dark mode.
- Just the Docs – Clean theme ideal for documentation sites.
- Beautiful Jekyll – Easy-to-use personal blog theme.
- Lanyon – A minimalist Jekyll theme.
- Jekyll Themes Directory – A collection of free and paid themes.
- jekyll-seo-tag – SEO metadata for search engines and social media.
- jekyll-feed – Automatically generate an Atom feed.
- jekyll-sitemap – Create a sitemap for your site.
- jekyll-archives – Archive pages by date, tag, or category.
- jekyll-paginate-v2 – Advanced pagination plugin.
- jekyll-admin – Visual editor for your Jekyll content.
- GitHub Pages – Host your Jekyll site for free.
- Netlify – CI/CD hosting with form and function support.
- Cloudflare Pages – Fast, globally distributed deployment.
- Vercel – Easy frontend deployment for Jekyll via adapters.
- Plausible – Privacy-friendly analytics.
- GoatCounter – Open source analytics.
- Google Search Console – Track and index your Jekyll site.
- Google Analytics – Traditional web traffic analysis.
- jekyll-seo-tag – Add SEO meta tags.
- Disqus – Comment system for blogs.
- Giscus – GitHub Discussions-based comments.
- Utterances – Lightweight GitHub issue comments.
- kramdown – Default Markdown parser for Jekyll.
- Jekyll Compose – Command line shortcuts for blog posts, drafts, and pages.
- Jekyll Assets – Asset pipeline for image compression, JS, and CSS processing.
- HTMLProofer – Test links and images in your generated site.
- Jekyll Resources – Jekyll guides, tutorials, and best practices.
- FreeCodeCamp Jekyll Tutorial – Video guide.
- Jekyll Up and Running – O’Reilly book by Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi.
- Jekyll Now – Minimal blog-ready setup.
- Dev Journal – Simple blogging theme.
- Academic Pages – Jekyll template for academic CVs and profiles.
- Start Bootstrap for Jekyll – Bootstrap themes adapted for Jekyll.
- GitHub Blog – Powered by Jekyll.
- JekyllConf Talks – Annual community showcase and sessions.
- Minimal Mistakes Examples – Demo of a top theme.
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