Donations page idea for Open Source Projects using Github Pages

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FROM: THAD GUIDRY

Hello Github Pages Support,

It would be nice if there was more information or some module, theme, framework officially maintained by Github Pages that allows easy plug and play of a Donation page for Open Source projects.

For instance, Antergos Linux has a really nice page that allows donations https://antergos.com/donate from multiple places and has a unified donate experience for all of them. They used the Divi build https://www.elegantthemes.com/plugins/divi-builder/# to customize this.

It would be fantastic if somehow a theme or configurable dialog could be dropped into any Github pages account to expose this functionality.... saving time, frustration, etc.. for all the Open Source projects that now run on Github and use Github pages.

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Hey Thad,

Thanks for reaching out about this! I will definitely pass this idea along to the team for consideration.
I can't say if or when a change will happen, but your feedback is in the right hands.

In the meantime, if you have an example of this that works well in Jekyll, I'd suggest you put it in a repository as a forkable Jekyll theme. This could work well with our theme chooser if the theme used the Pages metadata we supply for every site:

https://help.github.com/articles/repository-metadata-on-github-pages/

And you can see how to load the theme's specific CSS to your custom work here:

https://help.github.com/articles/customizing-css-and-html-in-your-jekyll-theme/#customizing-your-jekyll-themes-css

If you build that, or find it in another repo that's built for this purpose,
definitely let us know so we can take a look!

Shawna
Github Staff