Setting Up the Blog

Create a repository on GitHub to hold your blog content with the following directory structure:

├── about.md
├── posts
  ├── art-of-getting-better.md
  ├── behavior-of-links-created-using-javascript.md
  └── yellow-fade-technique-in-css.md
├── site.json
└── static
    ├── resume.pdf
    └── ebook.pdf

About Page

about.md is the markdown file containing the content for your about page.

Blog Posts

posts/ is the directory containing all your blog posts in markdown format. It supports the following frontmatter on top of each of the blog post

---
title: Your Personal Blog on GitHub Pages
date: 2022-05-25
permalink: /personal-blog-ghpages
---

Content for your bog post

Where title is the blog post title shown on the homepage as well as on the post detail page. date is the blog post date. permalink is the optional parameter to let you override the slug of the blog post.

Site Configuration

site.json contains the configuration to setup the blog. Given below is the sample JSON configuration.

{
  "title": "Kamran Ahmed",
  "subtitle": "Lead engineer at Zalando — tech guy with an entrepreneurial spirit and knack for getting things done",
  "owner": {
    "name": "Kamran Ahmed",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "social": {
    "github": "kamranahmedse",
    "medium": "kamranahmedse",
    "twitter": "kamranahmedse"
  },
  "newsletter": {
    "currentCount": "2,000",
    "revueUsername": "roadmapsh"
  },
  "seo": {
    "title": "Kamran Ahmed",
    "description": "Blog of a Software Engineer",
    "author": "Kamran Ahmed",
    "keywords": [
      "blog",
      "developer blog",
      "engineering blog"
    ]
  },
  "cname": "kamranahmed.info"
}

For the newsletter, you can remove the object if you don't have revue newsletter. And cname is your personal domain if applicable.

Static Assets

The contents of the static folder will simply be copied at the root of your blog and will be accessible via http://[blogurl]/filename

Setting Up GitHub Action

Once you have the blog repository setup, you need to setup the GitHub action in your repository. Create the action file at .github/workflows/deploy.yml with the following content

name: Build and Deploy
on: [push]
jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Deploy
        uses: kamranahmedse/github-pages-blog-action@master
        with:
          branch: gh-pages # Optional branch for GitHub Pages