Overriding defaults in Chirpy

Chirpy has everything that you need for a blog. When I started using this theme, I used the Starter instructions. Which means that you won’t be getting all the files that makes the whole Chirpy theme.

In my case, I wanted to change the CC license of all my posts, so I had to reference the original documentation. I had to look for the file that contained the copyright details.

You can find it in the _data folder.

copyright:
  # Shown at the bottom of the post
  license:
    template: This post is licensed under :LICENSE_NAME by the author.
    name: CC BY 4.0
    link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

To change the CC license of your blog, just edit the contents of name and link.

Your new en.yml file should contain:

copyright:
  # Shown at the bottom of the post
  license:
    template: This post is licensed under :LICENSE_NAME by the author.
    name: CC0 1.0
    link: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Always refer to the theme documentation when overriding a default layout of the blog.

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