Notes on Customizing Your GitHub Profile
- Introduction
- Basic Custom Profile
- Blog Post Feed
- YouTube Channel Feed
- Recent Activity Feed
- GitHub Stats
Introduction
I finally got around to making my GitHub profile look less plain. I came across this video on YouTube covering several different customizations. Below are some notes I made for future reference.
Basic Custom Profile
- Create a repository that has the same name as your user name
- Create a
README.md
fileLink to website
-
[](https://christianjmills.com)
-
Maybe Twitter
Use https://shields.io
[](https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=https://github.com/cj-mills&screen_name=cdotjdotmills)
About Me section
Contacts info and social media
Languages and Tools that you work with
https://github.com/github/explore: Houses all of the community-curated content for GitHub Topics and Collections (e.g. icon images)
Copy Download link
Visual Studio
Can have separate definitions for links
[website]: https://christianjmills.com
- Push the repository to GitHub.
- Make sure the repository is public.
Blog Post Feed
Requires a link to an RSS
feed.xml
fileUse GitHub Action
https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow
In
README.md
# Blog posts <!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:START --> <!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:END -->
Create
.github
folder- Create
workflows
folderCreate
blog-post-workflow.yml
filename: Latest blog post workflow on: schedule: # Run workflow automatically - cron: '0 * * * *' # Runs every hour, on the hour workflow_dispatch: # Run workflow manually (without waiting for the cron to be called), through the Github Actions Workflow page directly jobs: update-readme-with-blog: name: Update this repo's README with latest blog posts runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Pull in personal blog posts uses: gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow@master with: feed_list: "https://christianjmills.com/feed.xml"
Additional options
- Include under jobs: → steps: → with:
- Create
Manually Update List
- Go to
https://github.com/<user-name>/<repo-name>/actions/workflows/blog-post-workflow.yml
- Click on
Run workflow
drop-down menu - Click on
Run workflow
button
- Go to
YouTube Channel Feed
- Same steps as for Blog posts
- Changes
YouTube Channel Feed
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel-id>
REAME.md
# Youtube Videos <!-- YOUTUBE:START --> <!-- YOUTUBE:END -->
.github/workflows/youtube-workflow.yml
name: Latest YouTube video workflow on: schedule: # Run workflow automatically - cron: '0 * * * *' # Runs every hour, on the hour workflow_dispatch: # Run workflow manually (without waiting for the cron to be called), through the Github Actions Workflow page directly jobs: update-readme-with-blog: name: Update this repo's README with latest blog posts runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Pull in personal blog posts uses: gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow@master with: comment_tag_name: "YOUTUBE" feed_list: "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCDOTuz8In9mVs44WZMbYNGg"
Recent Activity Feed
- Use GitHub Action
- https://github.com/jamesgeorge007/github-activity-readme
- Changes
README.md
# Recent GitHub Activity <!--START_SECTION:activity-->
.github/workflows/update-readme.yml
name: GitHub Activity on: schedule: - cron: '*/30 * * * *' workflow_dispatch: jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest name: Update this repo's README with recent activity steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - uses: jamesgeorge007/github-activity-readme@master env: GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
GitHub Stats
- Use GitHub Action
- https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats
- Add to
README.md
Default

Hide Individual Stats

- Options:
&hide=stars,commits,prs,issues,contribs
- Options:
Include Private Contributions

Show Icons

Hide Border

Themes

Customize
GitHub - anuraghazra/github-readme-stats: Dynamically generated stats for your github readmes
Add Most Used Languages
markdown 
References:
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