_config.yml

# Website settings
title: "Mohammad Abu Thaher Chowdhury"
description: "PhD student at RPI, focusing on Dark Matter research. Explore my research, publications, and more."
url: "https://matc-thaher.github.io/website"  # Replace with your GitHub Pages URL
baseurl: "/website"  # Leave empty if your website is hosted at the root of the domain
author: "Mohammad Abu Thaher Chowdhury"

# SEO settings
google_analytics: "UA-XXXXXXXX-X"  # Add your Google Analytics tracking ID here (if you have one)
permalink: pretty  # Generates clean URLs without .html extension

# Sitemaps and SEO plugins
plugins:
  - jekyll-sitemap  # Automatically generate a sitemap for SEO
  - jekyll-seo-tag  # Adds SEO tags for social sharing, search engines, etc.
  - jekyll-feed

# Markdown and syntax highlighting
markdown: kramdown
highlighter: rouge

# Theme settings (if using a Jekyll theme)
theme: minima  # You can change this to another Jekyll theme if you prefer

# Directory settings
sass:
  style: compressed  # Minify CSS for better performance

# Exclude certain files and folders from the site generation
exclude:
  - README.md
  - node_modules
  - Gemfile
  - Gemfile.lock

# Social and profiles (you can add these to the footer or in your about page)
social_links:
  google_scholar: "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=your-google-scholar-id"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/your-orcid-id"
  researchgate: "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/your-profile-id"
  github: "https://github.com/your-username"

# Collections (if you have separate sections for publications, research, etc.)
collections:
  research:
    output: true
  publications:
    output: true
  talks:
    output: true

# Default settings for each page
defaults:
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: "posts"
    values:
      layout: "post"
      author: "Mohammad Abu Thaher Chowdhury"
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: "pages"
    values:
      layout: "default"
      author: "Mohammad Abu Thaher Chowdhury"

# Build settings
future: true