Minimal Mistakes

Minimal Mistakes is a two column responsive Jekyll theme perfect for powering your GitHub hosted blog.

Minimal Mistakes is all about:

Responsive templates. Looking good on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Gracefully degrading in older browsers. Compatible with Internet Explorer 8+ and all modern browsers.
Minimal embellishments -- content first.
Optional large feature images for posts and pages.
Simple and clear permalink structure.
Custom 404 page to get you started.
Stylesheets for Pygments and Coderay syntax highlighting to make your code examples look snazzy.

Basic Setup for a new Jekyll site

Install Bundler gem install bundler and then install Jekyll and all dependencies bundle install.
Fork the Minimal Mistakes repo.
Clone the repo you just forked and rename it.
Edit _config.yml to personalize your site.
Check out the sample posts in _posts to see examples for pulling in large feature images, assigning categories and tags, and other YAML data.

Pro-tip: Delete the gh-pages branch after cloning and start fresh by branching off master. There is a bunch of garbage in gh-pages used for the theme's demo site that I'm guessing you don't need.

More Theme Setup Goodness

To learn more about how customize this theme, include feature images in posts, use the Grunt build scripts, and some other junk, read up here.

Questions?

Having a problem getting something to work or want to know why I setup something in a certain way? Ping me on Twitter @mmistakes or file a GitHub Issue. And if you make something cool with this theme feel free to let me know.

License

This theme is free and open source software, distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. So feel free to use this Jekyll theme on your site without linking back to me or including a disclaimer.

mannytoledo/minimal-mistakes

Minimal Mistakes