Recs

March 7, 2019

WARNING: This post is over a year old. Some of the information this contains may be outdated.

DISCLAIMER: Any 3rd-party services in these posts and in the config are only recommendations/suggestions. I am not affiliated with any of them.

Netlify and other recs

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Register the website on Disqus.

Get your Disqus shortname, go to config.php and add your shortname under the services key.

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Register on Cloudinary.

Go to config.php and add your cloud name under the services key.

Committing image files into Git is generally a bad idea unless you're sure that they will very rarely get edited/updated. That is why it is ideal to host images externally with services like Cloudinary when using static site generators.

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Register the website on Google Analytics.

Get your tracking ID, go to config.php and add your ID under the services key.

The master template is designed to only include analytics in production. This is to avoid tracking page views while you are developing the site.