# Poole

The Jekyll Butler. A no frills responsive Jekyll blog theme.

Repository: https://github.com/poole/poole
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/poole
Homepage: https://getpoole.com
Language: CSS
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: jekyll-theme, jekyll
Last push: 2024-05-23T02:50:01+00:00
Link (homepage): https://getpoole.com

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4630, "days_push": 832, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2846, forks 2027 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:25.003361+00:00)

## What it is
Poole is a foundational setup ('butler') for Jekyll static sites, providing example templates, pages, posts, and styles, with official themes like Hyde (a two-column sidebar theme) and Lanyon (a content-first drawer theme). It gives developers a ready-to-run vanilla Jekyll install they can customize or theme.

## Use cases
- start a new Jekyll blog with a prebuilt theme
- build a personal static site with a sidebar layout
- quickly scaffold a Jekyll site with example content
- customize a two-column blog theme with color schemes
- create a documentation or portfolio site with Jekyll

## When to choose
- you use Jekyll and want a clean, minimal starting point
- you want a classic sidebar or drawer-based blog theme
- you prefer simple CSS you can easily customize

## When to avoid
- you use a static site generator other than Jekyll
- you need a modern JavaScript-based frontend framework
- you need a feature-rich, component-driven theme

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: static-site-generator, templating, css-framework, theme
- domain: web-development, web-design, frontend, documentation
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: jekyll, jekyll-theme, static-site, blog-theme, css, sidebar-layout, mark-otto, web-server

## Member repositories
- poole/poole (main) score 23
- poole/hyde (plugin) score 23
- poole/lanyon (plugin) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:25.003361+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:26:57.903649+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/poole/poole (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:25.003361+00:00, sha f3fa487edc17)
  - homepage: https://getpoole.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:50.313159+00:00, sha 48a63fea7703)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.