add a post

_ideas/YYYY-MM-DD-new-blog-template.md

@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ title: "Put Your Blog Title Here"
 permalink: "/blog-url"
 description: "Short description. Will be displayed when sharing blog post to Facebook."
 keywords: ""
-image: "path-to-featured-image.jpg"
+image: "path-to-featured-image"
 image-attrib: ""
 ---

_includes/head.html

@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@
     {% if page.type == "post" %}
     <meta property="og:type" content="article" />{% else %}<meta property="og:type" content="website" />{% endif %}
     <meta property="og:url" content="{{ page.url | absolute_url }}" />
-    <meta property="og:image" content="{{ '/assets/images/' | absolute_url }}{{ page.image }}.jpg" />
+    {% if page.image != '' %}
+        <meta property="og:image" content="{{ '/assets/images/' | absolute_url }}{{ page.image }}.jpg" />
+    {% else %}
+        <meta property="og:image" content="{{ '/assets/images/' | absolute_url }}jumbotron.jpg" />
+    {% endif %}
     <meta property="og:image:alt" content="{{ page.description }}" />
     <meta property="og:description" content="{{ page.description }}" />
     <meta property="og:site_name" content="Ayos Blog" />

_layouts/default.html

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
                     <div class="ayo-thumb">
                         <img src="../assets/images/ayo.jpg" alt="Free exclusive web development tips!" />
                     </div>
-                    <h2>Web Technologies and Productivity Hacks</h2>
+                    <h2>Blogs on life and personal growth.</h2>
                     <!--p>Learn how to use the best and latest web applications and technologies to boost your productivity.</p-->
                     <p>Want to give me a tip?</p>
                     <!--div class="post-readmore"><a target="_blank" class="button" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScinfuT_8-4q5Yk16nGUMxWxVpQgWZwyAaJ5oFY5_0NsRMjMw/viewform?usp=sf_link">Get FREE Consultation</a></div-->

_layouts/home.html

@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ layout: default
             <a class="post-link post-title" href="{{ post.url | relative_url }}">{{ post.title | escape }}</a>
           </h3>
           <div class="float-left post-excerpt">
-              <img class="float-right post-thumb" alt="{{ post.description | escape }}" src="../assets/images/{{ post.image }}.jpg" />
+              {% if post.image != '' %}
+                <img class="float-right post-thumb" alt="{{ post.description | escape }}" src="../assets/images/{{ post.image }}.jpg" />
+              {% endif %}
               {{ post.excerpt }}
           </div>
           <div class="clear-both"></div>

_layouts/post.html

@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ layout: default
       </p>
 
     <h3 class="post-title p-name" itemprop="name headline">{{ page.title | escape }}</h3>
-    <img alt="{{ page.description }} | Developer Blog How To" title="{{page.image-attrib}}" src="../assets/images/{{page.image}}.jpg" />
-    <p class="image-caption">{{page.image-attrib}}</p>
+    {% if page.image != '' %}
+      <img alt="{{ page.description }} | Developer Blog How To" title="{{page.image-attrib}}" src="../assets/images/{{page.image}}.jpg" />
+      <p class="image-caption">{{page.image-attrib}}</p>
+    {% endif %}
   </header>
 
   <div class="post-content e-content" itemprop="articleBody">

_posts/2020-04-07-hardships.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+title: "Hardships"
+permalink: "/hardships"
+description: "I hope that as we complain about our individual situation this also moves us to think about others."
+keywords: ""
+image: "egg"
+image-attrib: "No, sometimes your response to the circumstance is not just about what you are made of."
+---
+
+If the goal for our existence on this earth is to [love](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+13%3A34-35&version=NASB), then maybe all our hardships' purpose is for us to learn empathy.<!--more-->
+
+We have been in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two weeks now.
+
+It has affected people in different ways--from something simple such as being bored to more extreme such as being on the brink of insanity or death due to hunger.
+
+I know you might have heard this said: "The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's not about the circumstance, but what you are made of."
+
+This could have worked well in some other set up, but in the situation we have now, this is far from inspiring.
+
+The lockdown and call for social distancing has shown us a more grave matter: that there has been a huge SOCIAL GAP among our people, and this is killing people.
+
+Poor people are not made of weaker materials than the rest.
+
+We can never tell them to "just endure."
+
+We cannot rely on the overused belief that "we are resilient".
+
+At the end of the day, one thing is more likely than anything else: whatever you are going through right now, others are also experiencing something similar or much much worse.
+
+I hope that, whatever our circumstance we are in, this also moves us to think about others.