Overview

Minimal Mistakes is a Jekyll theme that is designed for building personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. It is known for its minimalistic styling, allowing users to easily customize and enhance the theme to their liking. The theme is bundled as a “theme gem” for easier installation and upgrading and is compatible with GitHub Pages. It also offers support for Jekyll’s built-in Sass/SCSS preprocessor and provides various responsive layout options. Additionally, it is optimized for search engines and includes features such as optional header images, custom sidebars, galleries, related posts, and commenting support.

Features

• Bundled as a “theme gem” for easier installation/upgrading
• Compatible with GitHub Pages
• Support for Jekyll’s built-in Sass/SCSS preprocessor
• Nine different skins (color variations)
• Several responsive layout options
• Optimized for search engines with support for Twitter Cards and Open Graph data
• Optional header images, custom sidebars, table of contents, galleries, related posts, breadcrumb links, and navigation lists
• Commenting support powered by Disqus, Facebook, Google+, Discourse, static-based via Staticman, utterances, and giscus
• Google Analytics support
• UI localized text in multiple languages

Installation

1. Install the jekyll-include-cache plugin by adding it to your Gemfile:

   gem 'jekyll-include-cache'
   

2. Add the plugin to the plugins array in your _config.yml file:

   plugins:
     - jekyll-include-cache
   

3. Download the Minimal Mistakes theme gem.

4. Install the theme using the following command:

   gem install minimal-mistakes-jekyll
   

5. Add the following line to your _config.yml file to enable the theme:

   theme: minimal-mistakes-jekyll
   

6. Customize the theme according to your preferences and content.

Summary

Minimal Mistakes is a versatile Jekyll theme that offers a range of features and customization options for building personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. With its minimalistic styling, it provides a clean and elegant design that can be easily enhanced and tailored to individual preferences. The theme is compatible with GitHub Pages and offers support for Jekyll’s preprocessor and multiple languages. It also includes various responsive layout options, search engine optimization, commenting support, and Google Analytics integration. With its easy installation process and flexible customization options, Minimal Mistakes is a popular choice for developers and content creators using Jekyll.