Blog Theme & Design Discussion: Requests, Suggestions, Decisions

Creating a new issue to log design requests, suggestions, and decisions. Please comment with new requests/suggestions or add your thoughts on the current requests/suggestions listed below.

CC: @reshamas @adrinjalali @jjerphan @ogrisel @thomasjpfan

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Production

V1: blog.scikit-learn.org

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Theme Options

Current Theme

• Minimal Mistakes

Other Themes

• Other options for Jekyll blogs: https://jekyllthemes.io/jekyll-blog-themes
• Pelican: https://blog.getpelican.com
• Hugo themes: https://themes.gohugo.io

Reference

Other Blogs

• Jupyter Blog (on Medium): https://blog.jupyter.org/archive
• Inria blog: https://scikit-learn.fondation-inria.fr/news/
• Jupyter calendar: https://docs.jupyter.org/en/latest/community/content-community.html#jupyter-community-meetings
• Data Umbrella (paid theme): https://blog.dataumbrella.org/
• Pandas Blog: https://dev.pandas.io/pandas-blog/
• Brit + Co: https://www.brit.co/

Current Design

Menus

• Header: scikit-learn.org, Calendar, Resources
  • Dropdown: Install, User Guide, API, Examples
• Sidebars
  • Social Media links
  • Archives: Category, Tag, Year
  • scikit-learn: About Us, FAQ, Code of Conduct
  • Mailing List: Subscribe, Archive
• Footer: Social Media links, Feed

Home Page

• Hero Banner: featured image, text
• Recent Posts Queue
  • Request: Display posts' featured image
  • Author, read time
• Twitter sidebar (currently hidden if viewer using adblock)

Posts

• Display authors
• Display Category, Tag

Pages

• Calendar: embedded public scikit-learn event calendar
• Resources

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Requests & Suggestions

Previous Discussions

• Issue: Add Blog to top menu bar
• Issue: Hosting on Netlify vs GH Pages

Requests

• Request: show earlier posts to viewers
  • We currently have Category, Tag and Year archives. If you have suggestions of an alternative way to display earlier posts, please comment and provide a reference link if available.
• Request: display the number of posts
  • Where should we display blog statistics?
  • Number of posts by category/tag/year? Total number?
    • The Category, Tag and Year archive pages have the number of posts.
• Request: display posts' featured image in recent/archived posts queue
• Do we want comments?
  • How would we deal with moderation?