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.
To run locally
- Install ruby/gem/jekyll (some combination of
# clone repo
git clone git@github.com:simonreeves/blog.git
cd blog/
# install
bundle install
# serve
bundle exec jekyll serve
# I had an error like this:
# /jekyll/commands/serve/servlet.rb:3:in `require': cannot load such file -- webrick (LoadError)
# internet suggested to:
bundle add webrick
# then this worked
bundle exec jekyll serve