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Octopress Localized to Chinese

I often find Octopress blogs with posts written in other languages have their titles and headings written in english. It looks inconsistent and makes the blog feel sloppy. To cater to the chinese users, we are maintaining a fork of the Octopress repository in Chinese. The code is the same. Only the headers and titles are localized to Chinese.

Changing the Github Organization Name to Octothemes

I am moving all the themes and plugin repositories to be under a new Github organization called Octothemes. Brandon, the author of Octopress asked me to change it as the organization name caused people to assume it is an official Octopress project. We are not an official Octpress project, but a third party one. I think it is a reasonable request. So here we are on a new Github organization. To minimize disturbances to existing users, the old repositories will be preserved until the end of June. My sincere apologies for any disturbances caused.

Adding a Related Posts Section to Your Post

A related posts section helps your readers to discover posts that they may like. It is very effective for increasing readership. In Octopress, it is very easy to add a related posts section. Jekyll already has a related posts plugin. All we need to do is to enable it. We have installed related posts for this blog. Take a look at the bottom of the post to see it.

Adding a Modal Dialog to Octopress With Foundation Zurb

In this post, I’m going to show you how to add modal dialogs to your Octopress blog. Some people call it lightbox, or modal popup. Essentially, they bring focus to content. I’m sure you must have came across it. Usually they are used to show photos, messages and forms. Sadly Octopress does not come with modal dialogs by default. But it is trivial to add it to your Octopress blog. I’ve selected Foundation Zurb’s reveal modal plugin. There are plenty of other plugins which would have done the job as nicely.

How to Add an Email Subscription Plugin on Octopress

Why do you want to add email subscription?

An email subscription form is one of the most common features you see on blogs. Yet it is not present by default on Octopress. Besides RSS feeds, your blog should provide an option for readers to subscribe by email. Having a way to reach your readers is never a bad thing. It is going to look just like the email subscription section you see on this blog(hint: on the right). Luckily, it is simple enough that you can create one in 5 minutes.