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title: Configuration
layout: page
date: 2020-05-31
tags: isabelline configuration
categories: global
sort_order: 2
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# Configuration parameters in `_config.yaml`

## title

The title of the blog.

## subtitle

Not currently used.

## nav.home

Override for the "Home" menu item in the main navigation.

## description

Copy that will be used in the `description` tag of the `head` section of generated html.

## tagline

Used as part of the home page title.

## baseurl

Will be pre-pended to all links generated for the blog.

## copyright_owner

`full_name`, `short_name` and `email` are used to construct the copyright message rendered at the bottom of all generated pages.

## author

`full_name`, `short_name` and `email` are used to construct byline on pages that use `blog`, `post` and `page` layouts.

## license

`name` and `url` used to generate the licensing message at the bottom of every page.

## tz



## jekyll_theme_isabelline

`name` and `url` used to generate a message indicating that the site was generated using this theme. Can be optionally removed.

## theme: jekyll-theme-isabelline

Tells `jekyll` to use this theme.