Example config file with more configuration settings that can be used with Jekyll.

_config.yml

repository : jekyllgems/base
github     : [metadata]

# This is a base template for Jekyll. The starter template that 
# ships with "jekyll new sitename" is complete trash. 
#
# It is not good for a person coming to Jekyll with no knowledge 
# of programming or themeing as is the general purpose of the Jekyll 
# framework according to their own statments.
#
# If you need any help feel free to reach out on discord or email 
# me and I will help in any way you need. If you want a custom theme
# or plugin built you can hop on discord and we can discuss it.
#
# =============
# SOCIAL LINKS 
# =============
#
# This section handles your social network links displayed across
# your site in liquid tags as site.social.NAME feel free to reach
# out to me using these if you need any help.

social:
  github           : leatheresque
  email            : jekyllcoder@gmail.com
  discord          : leatheresque#3820
  support_server   : https://discord.gg/8uc5FyPdHk

# ==========
# SITE TITLE
# ==========
#
# This is the title of your website for example, "The Moo York Times" :)

title: Your New Site

description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
  Welcome to your new site, replace this description

# =======
# BASEURL
# =======
#
# This is the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog if you want users to 
# access your site at https://example.com/blog
#
# If you are using a gh-pages site this will be empty if your site 
# is on https://username.github.io if your repo using this theme is 
# named "foobar" then change this to /foobar and when you serve
# it using the pages setting it will be live at
#
# https://username.github.io/foobar 

baseurl       : "/base"

# ===
# URL
# ===
#
# This is the base hostname & protocol for your site, as you see 
# I use https://jekyllgems.github.io because this is a template 
# and served live on my gh-pages site.
#
# Use localhost for local development
# http://localhost:4000


url            : "https://jekyllgems.github.io"
 
# =================
# EXCERPT_SEPARATOR
# =================
#
# This is used in your blog posts, you can see an example in any 
# of the example blog posts included in this theme. It functions
# to trim your posts when displaying them so it doesnt show the
# entire post like on the front page. Feel free to change where
# the excerpt ends.

excerpt_separator: <!--more-->

# ==============
# BUILD SETTINGS
# ==============
#
# These are build settings needed for when you run "jekyll serve"
# commands. You can change these, but be careful because they can
# cause your site to break.
#
# COLLECTIONS
# ===========
#
# Collections are Jekylls way to handle things like tags, categories,
# authors. Any type of data you can iterate over. Here is how you add
# categories to your blog. Uncomment this to have it assign links for
# your categories
# 
# collections:
#   categories: # This will create your category links
#     output: true
#     permalink: /:categories/:title/
#
# =======
# PLUGINS
# =======
#
# This is just one of the plugins you can use with jekyll
# you can find more useful plugins I have created at: 
# 
# https://github.com/jekyllgems/plugins

plugins:
  - jekyll-feed

_short.yml

title: Your Site Title

description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
  This is the personal website of leatheresque where you can find gems created by him.

baseurl          : ""
url              : "http://localhost:4000"

social:
  github           : leatheresque
  linkedin         : jekyllcoder
  dev_to           : leatheresque
  email            : jekyllcoder@gmail.com
  discord_id       : leatheresque#3820
  invite_link      : 8uc5FyPdHk

plugins:
  - jekyll-feed

collections:
  categories:
    output: true
    permalink: /:categories/:title/

full_config.yml

# Site settings
title: Your Site Title
description: A brief description of your site
baseurl: "" # The subpath of your site, e.g. /blog/
url: "https://example.com" # The base hostname & protocol for your site
timezone: America/New_York

# Build settings
markdown: kramdown
theme: minima
plugins:
  - jekyll-feed

# Permalinks
permalink: /:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title.html

# Pagination
paginate: 10
paginate_path: "/page:num/"

# Collections
collections:
  blog:
    output: true
    permalink: /blog/:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title.html
    excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
    tag_page_layout: tag_page

# Defaults for each post
defaults:
  -
    scope:
      path: "" # empty string for all files in the repo
      type: "posts"
    values:
      layout: "post"
      comments: true

# Navigation
header_pages:
  - about.md
  - contact.md

# Exclude files & directories
exclude:
  - Gemfile
  - Gemfile.lock
  - vendor
  - _site
  - node_modules
  - .sass-cache

# Redirects
redirects:
  "/old-page.html": "/new-page/"

# Markdown options
kramdown:
  input: GFM
  hard_wrap: false
  syntax_highlighter: rouge
  syntax_highlighter_opts:
    css_class: "highlight"