Minimal Mistakes
A popular and well maintained Jekyll theme suitable for blogs, personal and portfolio sites. This theme is extremely well coded, highly customizable and well documented.
Overview
The Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme is a flexible two-column theme that is perfect for building personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. The theme has a minimalistic styling that allows for customization by the user. It is compatible with GitHub Pages and has support for Jekyll's built-in Sass/SCSS preprocessor. It also supports nine different color variations. The theme is optimized for search engines and has support for Twitter Cards and Open Graph data. It includes several responsive layout options and has features like optional header images, custom sidebars, table of contents, galleries, related posts, breadcrumb links, navigation lists, and more. It also has support for commenting through platforms like Disqus, Facebook, Google+, Discourse, utterances, and giscus. The theme also includes support for Google Analytics. It supports localization in multiple languages.
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 (single, archive index, search, splash, and paginated home page).
- 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, navigation lists, and more.
- Commenting support (powered by Disqus, Facebook, Google+, Discourse, static-based via Staticman, utterances, and giscus).
- Google Analytics support.
- Support for localization in multiple languages.
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