Add Edit button

[gr2m]

As we use jekyll for http://hood.ie/, all pages can be directly edited on GitHub. For example, the content of http://hood.ie/community/ can be edited here: https://github.com/hoodiehq/hood.ie/edit/gh-pages/community/index.html (You need to be signed in)

To make it simpler for visitors to fix a typo and help with improving our site in general, we would like to add an edit button to every page, like on http://nobackend.org/ (bottom right of page)

Here is how the code looks like for the edit button:
https://github.com/noBackend/nobackend.org/blob/gh-pages/_layouts/page.html#L57

We would love something similar on http://hood.ie/ :)

[espy]

That's totally on my list since I saw that Ember does it too (pencil icon on the right):

Good idea!

[NickColley]

We do something similar for PouchDB:

http://pouchdb.com/guides/

https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/blob/master/docs/_layouts/default.html#L74

https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/blob/master/docs/_includes/edit_button.html

This way you can turn it on and off depending on the page using frontmatter.

[bartw]

I'd like to try to implement this.

But I'm having troubles getting the site working on my machine.
The scss files won't compile and it seems that head.html contains a link to the css on hoodiehq instead of something variable.

Anybody got some pointers?

[gr2m]

@bartw thanks Bart!

what ruby version do you have installed (ruby -v)? You might need to update to the latest. Then you need to install jekyll and 2 plugins

gem install jekyll jekyll-redirect-from jekyll-paginate

and then, in theory, you should be able to do jekyll serve --watch. If you get any errors, can you post them here?

[dristibutola]

Hi !! I would like to work on this issue.Secondly for edit button do , i need to create it for just the main page hoodie.ie or for its other dependent pages as well.
Thanks

[gr2m]

I think you could add the edit button to the header*.html files here: https://github.com/hoodiehq/hood.ie/tree/gh-pages/_includes

Note that the setup is currently quite complicated with CSS being served from another place. We hope to clean this all up soon via #312. But feel free to give it a try :)