Your First Post on Bridgetown

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run bin/bridgetown start, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

Bridgetown requires blog post files to be named according to the following format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.EXT

Where YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers, and EXT is the file extension representing the format used in the file (for example, md for Markdown). After that, include the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Bridgetown also offers powerful support for code snippets:

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Check out the Bridgetown docs for more info on how to get the most out of Bridgetown. File all bugs/feature requests at Bridgetown’s GitHub repo. If you have questions, you can ask them on Bridgetown Discussions on GitHub.