Now that you should be familiar with YAML and basic front-matters, it should be easy to adjust the sites global settings.

In order to do so, please open up the _config.yml file in your favorite code or text editor.

Similar to front-matter of posts and pages, the area between both triple-dashes includes various options to configure the site.

Default Settings

This is how the default config file looks like — not too complex though

Some of them, such as title, name, description, url or copyright should be self-explaining, so let’s have a look at the others below.

• baseurl: The baseurl can remain empty by default and is just required if you’re going to host your site in a subfolder of your webspace such as /blog for example. In this case, you would have to add /blog as value of this option to make sure paths will be correct.
• paginate: Defines the amount of posts displayed per page on the homepage.
• paginate_path: This option defines the folder structure for paginated index pages. It’s slightly more advanced and you can just leave it as it is — for more details, please feel free to have a look at this page on the Jekyll website.
• twitter: Please feel free to add your Twitter username without the @ here or leave it empty. The username will be used for Twitter Cards supported by the theme.
• disqus: Sign up for a free account on Disqus and add your unique shortname to this option in order to enable comments for each post.
• analytics: Add your Google Analytics Tracking ID here to enable statistics and tracking of each post and page.