diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ Here is the template of my blog, released under the MIT license.
 Format Date for Posts like here
 https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/format_parse/datetime/#date-field-symbol-table
 
-The main branch is the template and the nikus-blog branch is the template with my content.
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+The Blog needs at least one post to compile sucessfully, because of that, there is already a template.md in `source/_posts`
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diff --git a/source/_posts/.gitignore b/source/_posts/.gitignore
index 2e1fa2d..82aebf7 100644
--- a/source/_posts/.gitignore
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@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-*.md
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+*.md
+!template.md
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diff --git a/source/_posts/template.md b/source/_posts/template.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7bf6f79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/_posts/template.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+extends: _layouts.post
+title: Template
+date: 2017-03-23
+---
+A basic post is looking like this
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