Digit

Getting Started

Thank you for purchasing Digit, the most versatile and flexible jamstack template, Built by Stackrole using Gatsby and Netlfiy CMS.

Introduction

Digit comes with Home, About, Feature, Price, and Blog Pages. Each having a unique level layout and color customizations.

In this documentation, we will walk you thru each and every step that helps you fully customize and manage your content.

In this guide, we will walk you through step-by-step guidelines. To help launch your website.

Folder Structure

Digit Starter mostly follow this folder structure:

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├── src
│   └── components
│   └── content
│   └── gatsby-plugin-theme-ui
│       └── index.js
│   └── pages
│   └── templates
│   └── util
├── static
│   └── admin 
│   └── assets
├── gatsby-config.js
└── package.json

Note: if you migrating/updating your website keep a backup of src/content and src/util folder as these contain all the date required for the website

Local Development

Prerequisites

To get Gatsby working, you need the following installed

Once installed, you can verify the same from your terminal.

node -v
# v12.18.3

gatsby -v
# Gatsby CLI version: 2.19.1

yarn --version
# 1.22.5

Note: You can learn more about using command line interface (CLI) on your computer see instructions for Mac, instructions for Windows or instructions for Linux.

Creating a Website

After downloading your Digit package from Gumroad, Unzip the zip file. Inside the package, you will find the following folder structure:

.
├── starter
├── documentation

You need to change the directory into the starter

cd starter

Note: you need Gatsby CLI and Yarn installed prior to this

Development

Now, run yarn install

yarn install

Once the installation is complete, run yarn start to start the server.

yarn start

After the development server is running it will show a URL from where you can see your website in action, mostly it would be http://localhost:8000

Netlify CMS in Local

To use Netlify CMS in the local environment, run the following command:

yarn cms

Now visit http://localhost:8000/admin

Note: Make sure you have local_backend: true in static/admin/config.yml

Once you are on Netlify CMS, you can navigate to Page, Feature, Posts, Tags, Categories, Menu, Appearance, and Settings to manage your website content and setting

You can select any collection to create, edit, and delete content

Manage Pages

Home

Goto Pages > Home, here you can manage page content

About

Goto Pages > About page, here you can manage featured image, page content, timeline, and teams

Price

Goto Pages > Price, here you can manage page info, SEO description and Prices content

Contact

Goto Pages > Contact, here you can manage page info, SEO description, and Google map

Feature

Goto Pages > Feature, here you can manage page info and SEO description

Blog

Goto Pages > Blog, here you can manage page info and SEO description

Services

Goto Pages > Services, here you can manage page info and SEO description

Manage Collections

Feature

Goto Feature, here you can add a new feature (or) portfolio and manage page info, SEO description, image alignment, body, Bulleted list, and Accordion list

Services

Goto Services, here you can add a new service and manage page info, SEO description, icon image, body

Posts

Goto Posts, here you can add new posts and manage post info, SEO description, featured image body, tags, and category

Tags

Goto Tags, here you can add new tags and manage its title. You can select a tag inside Post.

Each tag page will contain all posts listed under their respective tag.

Categories

Goto Categories, here you can add new categories and manage its title. You can select a category inside Post.

Each category page will contain all posts listed under their respective category.

Goto Menu, from here you can manage the header and footer menu.

Appearance

Goto Appearance, from here you can manage the defaul theme colors, Site layout and Site fonts

Manage Settings

Settings play a key role in managing your website. Make sure, you stop your server(ctrl+c) and restart the server(yarn start) after changing the settings.

General Settings

Goto Settings > General, Change your Site title, Website URL, SEO description, Favicon, and other settings.

Integration

Goto Settings > integrations to manage Google Analytics, Disqus, and Convertkit settings

Deploying & Hosting

There are many awesome platforms to help you take your Gatsby website. Here are the instructions for Hosting Gatsby websites available on Gatsby's docs.

To take full advantage of Digit you need to host with Netlify, where you can pair with Netlify CMS to manage the content otherwise you can always use markdown and JSON files to manage content and settings.

Netlify

Once you have finished adding content your need to create a Github Private Repository. This repository should have contents from the starter folder we created.

  1. Goto Netlify and signup
  2. Click New site from Git
  3. Connect your Github account
  4. Search and Select your repo.
  5. Leave build settings as default and Click Deploy

Your site deployment process will start and the website will be live in few minutes. Netlify will you give your site URL. for example https://your-site.netlify.app

Configuring Netlify CMS

  • In GitHub, go to your account Settings, and select OAuth Apps under Developer Settings.
  • Select Register a new application.

  • For the Authorization callback URL, enter https://api.netlify.com/auth/done and homepage URL must be your Netlify site URL, and The other fields can contain anything you want.

    New Github OAuth app registration
    New Github OAuth app registration

  • When you complete the registration, you’ll be given a Client ID and a Client Secret for the app. You’ll need to add these to your Netlify site:

    • Go to Site settings > Access control > OAuth.
    • Under Authentication Providers, select Install Provider.
    • Select GitHub and enter the Client ID and Client Secret, then save.
  • Goto to your-site.netlify.app/admin/, and log in with your Github account.

You can read more about using OAuth provider tokens on your Netlify site here: https://docs.netlify.com/visitor-access/oauth-provider-tokens/#setup-and-settings

Adding domain

Connecting a domain name to a Netlify website is fairly simple. Check out this article we wrote on Adding custom domain for Netlify website on Stackrole

Support

Thank you, We really appreciate you taking the time to build your website with our Digit. We would love to get your feedback.

If you are facing issues, please feel free to contact us via email hi@stackrole.com.

We would love to see what you have built, please share your website with us @stackrole

😀 ❤️ 🎉

Changelog

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