Jul 11, 2019

Why Jekyll-Vfolio?

Jekyll-Vfolio is a jekyll theme that is suitable for creators making films and videos. It makes easier to update videos and films without the need of a database. Jekyll makes it possiple to do so.

Jekyll-Vfolio makes it easier to add new videos, update video URLs, add/edit metadata about the video using Yaml files in _data folder.

For example, in order to make changes to /film-reel page use the film-reel.yml located at /_data.

In order to update the video for sample video just change the values of videoID and videotype in these lines of film-reel.yml file.
Note: you may use the instructions given in the comments section of the Yaml files.

Features of Jekyll-Vfolio

  • Customizable
  • No need to keep and maintain databases
  • Less burden on server as there is no databases.

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