Tips & Tricks
A poor man's TOC in {distill}
A floating Table of Contents (TOC) in {distill} in fixed position with Toggle (show/hide) button and Scrolling Active States.
Upgrading Distill Blog Settings
The second part of a series on how I upgraded this `Distill` themed blog
Quality of life modifications for your distill websites
In this post, you can find simple but useful enhancements that can be applied to your distill website. From enhancing your table of contents tab to adding a 'copy to clipboard button' in source code chunks, learn how you can make your distill website even more awesome!
Modifying the GitHub repo containing my Distill website
Adventures with giscus (easier) and GitHub Actions (harder)
Enable giscus in Distill
How to use the giscus commenting system on a Distill blog
Adding Disqus to distill blogs
Notes on adding comments to distill pages.
Leaving known waters
Over the last weeks and months I have collected three features for the blog itself that I want to implement. Covers: A custom parallax scrolling landing page, Utterances comments and a custom 404 error page. None are built into the {distill} package, so there's some manual work needed. I'll go through the changes here.
What's he building in there?
Customizing a {distill} website. Covers: Page and article metadata tricks with {metathis}, adding collapsible and movable Utterances comments sections to posts, and using post templates with {distilltools}.
Custom Syntax Highlighting for {distill} Part 2: Creating the Palette
How to create an appealing and accessible colour palette for a syntax highlighting scheme
Custom Syntax Highlighting for {distill} Part 1: Modifying the default theme
A guide to modifying the default {distill} syntax highlighting theme, including colour choice considerations, and its implementation in {distilltools}
How to create a gallery in Distill
Use lightgallery.js to create a gallery for your plots or images.
Personalizing the Distill Template
How to modify the distill template to fit your preferences.
Deploy previews with Netlifly
Collaborative {distill} website workflows
Automagic Tabs in Distill/Rmarkdown files and time series analysis
This article shows the use of tabs in Rmarkdown documents, through an example of time series analysis of the monthly estimator of Argentine economic activity.
Customizing distill with {htmltools} and CSS
How I added lots of little features to my distill site with the {htmltools} package, CSS, and a handful of little R functions.
Create a GitHub website with distill in less than 30 minutes
The following are step-by-step instructions for creating a website using [R Markdown](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/) and the [distill R package](https://rstudio.github.io/distill/) (through [R Studio](https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/)) and [GitHub](https://github.com/).
Use GitHub actions with R Markdown and Distill
How can you automatically render README, Distill website...
M-F-E-O: postcards + distill
The new postcards package and distill are M-F-E-O (made for each other). Here is a brief walk-through to add a postcards personal profile page to your distill website or blog, using only R Markdown.
Making a Darkmode for your distill site
We build a darkmode for our distill site using css and a bit of java script.
Thank you {blogdown}, hello {distill}.
A few notes on moving from blogdown to distill.
Enable utterances with distill
Interested in giving your readers the ability to comment on your {distill} blog? Look no further than utteranc.es.
Distill it down
My experiences with building webpages and websites using some of the simpler R Studio tools.
Misc tricks when migrating from blogdown to distill
Some small things I learned as I migrated my blog from blogdown to distill.
Building a blog with distill
I love simplicity.