Click Use this template button above for the quickest method of getting started with the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme.
Contains basic configuration to get you a site with:
- Sample posts.
- Sample top navigation.
- Sample author sidebar with social links.
- Sample footer links.
- Paginated home page.
- Archive pages for posts grouped by year, category, and tag.
- Sample about page.
- Sample 404 page.
- Site wide search.
Replace sample content with your own and configure as necessary.
If you have a question about using Jekyll, start a discussion on the Jekyll Forum or StackOverflow. Other resources:
- Ruby 101
- Setting up a Jekyll site with GitHub Pages
- Configuring GitHub Metadata to work properly when developing locally and avoid
No GitHub API authentication could be found. Some fields may be missing or have incorrect data.warnings.
- Page is based on template at https://github.com/mmistakes/mm-github-pages-starter
- Documentation
- Not all theme files are included in the repo directly but are used from the Gem. To make changes on these files, copy them from here to the repo and Jekyll will prefer the local copy
academicicons.css(contains Google Scholar icon) stylesheet included by adding it to_includes/custom.html- Typography reverted back to older versions by adding stylesheets referencing fonts in
_includes/custom.htmland overriding SASS variables from_sass/minimal-mistakes/_variables.scssinassets/css/main.scssbefore@importstatements (Instructions here) - Changed font size and family of sidebar (and more) by overriding CSS statements from
_sass/minimal-mistakes/_sidebar.scssinassets/css/main.scssafter@importstatements - Adjusted
_includes/seo.htmlsuch that the title of the landing page (Recent posts, defined inindex.html) does not contain redundant parts (i.e.Matthiasmunz.de - Matthiasmunz.debecomesMatthiasmunz.de)