Jared McBride

Jared McBride

I am an assisstant professor of Mathematics at the Southern Virginia University

3.4.2

3.4.2

Enhancements

  • Improve UX of static comment forms. #448

3.4.1

Enhancements

  • Add staticman.filename configuration with UNIX timestamp for sorting data files. example ~> comment-1470943149.

Bug Fixes

  • Don’t add <a> to author name if URL is blank.

3.4.0

Enhancements

  • Support static-based commenting via Staticman for sites hosted with GitHub Pages. #424

3.3.7

Bug Fixes

  • Re-enabled Jekyll plugins in _config.yml in case they aren’t autoloaded in Gemfile. #417

Enhancements

Maintenance

3.3.6

Bug Fixes

  • Fix blank site.teaser bug. #412

3.3.5

Enhancements

  • Add English default text site.locale strings. #407
  • Add Portuguese localized UI text. #411
  • Add Italian localized UI text. #409

Maintenance

  • Remove unused Google AdSense variables in _config.yml. #404
  • Update Gemfile instructions for using github-pages vs. native jekyll gems.
  • Disable gems: in _config.yml and enable plugins with Bundler instead.
  • Add repository to _config.yml to suppress GitHub Pages error Liquid Exception: No repo name found.

3.3.4

Enhancements

  • Add support for configurable feed URL to use a service like FeedBurner instead of linking directly to feed.xml in <head> and the site footer. #378, #379, #406
  • Add Turkish localized UI text. #403

Maintenance

  • Update gems: activesupport (4.2.7), ffi (1.9.14), github-pages (88), jekyll-redirect-from (0.11.0), jekyll-watch (1.5.0).

3.3.3

Enhancements

  • Make footer stick to the bottom of the page.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix gallery size bug #402

Maintenance

  • Set default lang to en.

3.3.2

Bug Fixes

  • Fix JavaScript that triggers “sticky” sidebar to avoid layout issues on screen sizes < 1024px. #396

3.3.1

Enhancements

  • Enable image popup on < 500px wide screens. #385
  • Indicate the relationship between component URLs in a paginated series by applying rel="prev" and rel="next" to pages that use site.paginator. #253
  • Improve link posts in archive listings. #276

Maintenance

  • Update gems: github-pages (86), ffi 1.9.13, jekyll-mentions 1.1.3, and rouge 1.11.1
  • Fix note about custom sidebar content appearing below author profile. #388

3.2.13

Enhancements

  • Add English default UI text for Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. #377
  • Switch default locale from en-US to en.

3.2.12

Enhancements

  • Remove window width “magic number” from sticky sidebar check in main.js for improved flexibility. #375

Bug Fixes

  • Fix author override conditional where a missing authors.yml would show broken sidebar content. Defaults to site.author. #376

3.2.11

Bug Fixes

  • Fix disappearing author sidebar links #372

Maintenance

  • Update gems: github-pages (84), jekyll-github-metadata 2.0.2, and kramdown 1.11.1
  • Update vendor JavaScript: jQuery 1.12.4, Stickyfill.js 1.1.4
  • Update Font Awesome 4.6.3

3.2.10

Maintenance

  • Add CONTRIBUTING.md

3.2.9

Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Person typo Schema.org type #358

Maintenance

  • Update github-pages gem and dependencies.
  • Remove minutes_read to avoid awkward reading time wording #356

3.2.8

Bug Fixes

  • Remove cursor: pointer that appears on white-space surrounding author side list items and links. #354

Maintenance

  • Add contributing information to README.md. #357

3.2.7

Enhancements

  • Add French localized UI text. #346

Bug Fixes

  • Fix branch logic for Yandex and Alexa in seo.html. #348

3.2.6

Bug Fixes

  • Fix error Liquid Exception: divided by 0 in _includes/archive-single.html, included in _layouts/single.html caused by null words_per_minute in _config.yml. #345

3.2.5

Bug Fixes

  • Fix link color in hero overlay to be white.
  • Remove underlines from archive item titles.

3.2.4

Enhancements

  • Improve text alignment of masthead, hero overlay, page footer to be flush left and remove awkward white-space gaps. #342
  • Add Spanish localized UI text. #338

Bug Fixes

  • Fix alignment of icons in author sidebar #341

Maintenance

  • Add background color to page footer to set it apart from main content. #342
  • Add terms and privacy policy to theme’s demo site. #343
  • Update screenshots found in theme documentation.

3.2.3

Enhancements

3.2.2

Enhancements

  • Add support for image captions in Magnific Popup overlays via the gallery helper. #334

3.2.1

Bug Fixes

  • Remove need for “double tapping” masthead menu links on iOS devices. #315

Maintenance

  • Add ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md for improve issue submission process.

3.2.0

Bug Fixes

  • Fix missing category/tag links in post footer due to possible conflict with site.tags and site.categories. #329

3.1.8

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Liquid Exception: undefined method 'gsub' for nil:NilClass in _layouts/single.html error when page.title is null. <h1> element is now conditional if title: is not set for a page or collection item. #312

Maintenance

  • Remove duplicate fa-twitter and fa-twitter-square classes from _utilities.scss. #302

  • Document installing additional Jekyll gem dependencies when using gem "jekyll" instead of gem "github-pages" to avoid any errors on run. #305

3.1.7

Enhancements

  • Add translation key for “Recent Posts” used in home page index.html. #316

Maintenance

  • Small fix to avoid underlying the whitespace between icons and related text when hovering. #303

3.1.6

Maintenance

  • Update gem dependencies. Run bundle to update Gemfile.lock.

3.1.5

Maintenance

  • Fix www and https links in author profile include #293

3.1.4

Enhancements

  • Add overlay_filter param to hero headers #298

3.1.3

Enhancements

  • Improve site.locale documentation #284
  • Remove ProTip note about protocol-less site.url as it is an anti-pattern #288

Bug Fixes

  • Fix og_image URL in seo.html #277
  • Fix author_profile toggle when assigned in a _layout #285
  • Fix typo in build:all npm script #283
  • Fix URL typo documentation #287
  • SEO author bug. If twitter.username is set and author.twitter is nil bad things happen. #289

3.1.2

Enhancements

  • Explain how to use nav_list helper in documentation.
  • Reduce left/right padding on smaller screens to increase width of main content column.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix alignment issues with related posts #273 and “Follow” button in author profile #274.

3.1.1

Bug Fix

  • Fixed reading time bug when words_per_minute wasn’t set in _config.yml #271

3.1.0

Enhancements

  • Updated Font Awesome to version 4.6.1
  • Added optional GitHub and Bitbucket links to footer if set on site.author in _config.yml.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Bitbucket URL typo in author sidebar.

3.0.3

Enhancements

  • Rebuilt the entire theme: layouts, includes, stylesheets, scripts, you name it.
  • Refreshed the look and feel while staying true to the original design of the theme (author sidebar/main content).
  • Replaced grid system with Susy.
  • Replaced Grunt tasks with npm scripts.
  • Removed Google Fonts and replaced with system fonts to improve performance (they can be added back if desired)
  • Greatly improved theme documentation.
  • Increased the amount of sample posts, sample pages, and sample collections to throughly test the theme and edge-cases.
  • Moved all sample content and assets out of master to keep it as clean as possible for forking.
  • Added new layouts for splash pages, archives for jekyll-archives if enabled, and compress.html to improve performance.
  • Added taxonomy links to posts (tags and categories).
  • Added optional “reading time” meta data.
  • Improved Liquid used for Twitter Cards and Open Graph data in <head>.
  • Improved gallery include helper and added feature_row for use with splash page layout.
  • Added Keybase.io, author web URI, and Bitbucket optional links to sidebar.
  • Add feed.xml link to footer.
  • Added a UI text data file to easily change all text found in the theme.
  • Added LinkedIn to optional social share buttons.
  • Added Facebook, Google+, and custom commenting options in addition to Disqus.
  • Added optional breadcrumb links.

2.2.1

2.2.0

Enhancements

  • Add support for Jekyll 3.0
  • Minor updates to syntax highlighting CSS and theme documentation

2.1.3

Enhancements

  • Cleaner print styles that remove the top navigation, social sharing buttons, and other elements not needed when printed.

2.1.2

Enhancements

  • Add optional CodePen icon/url to author side bar #156
  • Documented Stackoverflow username explanation in _config.yml #157
  • Simplified Liquid in post-index.html to better handle year listings #166

Bug Fixes

  • Cleanup Facebook related Open Graph meta tags #149
  • Corrected minor typos #158 #175

2.1.1

Enhancements

  • Add optional XING profile link to author sidebar
  • Include open graph meta tags for feature image (if assigned) #149
  • Create an include for feed footer

Bug Fixes

  • Remove http protocol from Google search form on sample 404 page
  • Only show related posts if there are one or more available
  • Fix alignment of email address link in author sidebar

2.1.0

Enhancements

  • Add optional social sharing buttons (#42)

social sharing buttons

  • Add Soundcloud, YouTube (#95), Flickr (#119), and Weibo (#116) icons for use in author sidebar.
  • Fix typos in posts and documentation and remove references to Less
  • Include note about Octopress gem being optional
  • Post author override support extended to the Atom feed (#71)
  • Only include email address in feed if specified in _config.yml or author _data
  • Wrap all page content in #main to harmonize article and post index styles (#86)
  • Include new sample feature images for posts and pages
  • Table of contents improvements: fix collapse toggle, indent nested elements, show on small screens, and create an _include for reusing in posts and pages.
  • Include note about running Jekyll with bundle exec when using Bundler
  • Fix home page path in top navigation
  • Remove Google Authorship (#120)
  • Remove duplicate author content that displayed in div.article-author-bottom
  • Removed unused _sass/print.scss styles
  • Improve comments in .scss files

2.0.0

1.3.3

Enhancements

  • Added new icons and profile links for Stackoverflow, Dribbble, Pinterest, Foursquare, and Steam to the author bio sidebar.
  • Cleaned up the Kramdown auto table of contents styling to be more readable
  • Removed page width specific .less stylesheets and created mixins for easier updating
  • Removed Modernizr since it wasn’t being used
  • Added pages to sitemap.xml
  • Added category: to rake new_post task
  • Minor typographic changes

Bug Fixes

  • Corrected various broken links in README and Theme Setup.

1.3.1

Enhancements

  • Cleaned up table of contents styling
  • Reworked top navigation to be a better experience on small screens. Nav items now display vertically when the menu button is tapped, revealing links with larger touch targets.

menu animation

1.2.0

Bug Fixes

  • Table weren’t filling the entire width of the content container. They now scale at 100%. Thanks @dhruvbhatia

Enhancements

  • Decreased spacing between Markdown footnotes
  • Removed dark background on footer
  • Removed UPPERCASE styling on post titles in the index listing

1.1.4

Bug Fixes

  • Fix top navigation bug issue (#10) for real this time. Remember to clear your floats kids.

1.1.3

Bug Fixes

  • Fix top navigation links that weren’t click able on small viewports (Issue #10).
  • Remove line wrap from top navigation links that may span multiple lines.

1.1.2

Enhancements

  • Added Grunt build script for compiling Less/JavaScript and optimizing image assets.
  • Added support for large image summary Twitter card.
  • Stylesheet adjustments

1.1.1

Bug Fixes

Enhancements

  • Added image attribution for post and page feature images.
  • Added 404 page.
  • Cleaned up various Less variables to better align with naming conventions used in other MM Jekyll themes.
  • Removed Chrome Frame references.
  • Added global CSS3 transitions to text and block elements.
  • Improved typography in a few places.

1.0.2

Enhancements

  • Google Analytics, Google Authorship, webmaster verifies, and Twitter card meta are now optional.

1.0.1