_pagesholds the main pages- Images on home page and main pages should have ratio 1:1.61
- Banners should be about 2000 x 400 px
- Blog teaser images appear as small icons along the bottom of other posts. They should be 4:1 aspect ratio. See examples in
assets/images/postsif no teaser is defined in the post YAML front matter, a default is used. The default is defined in_config.yml - The header links are in
_data/navigation.ymlAny side-navigation bars are also there. - The YAML front matter of the pages is indentation sensitive. Sometimes pages don't display and generate a 404 error due to this. If there are errors, they will come up when you navigate to the page in GitHub's web-based file browser of the repo.
- Lots of great stuff in the Minimal Mistakes Cheatsheet
- Reveal.js and Minimal Mistakes
Minimal Mistakes is a flexible two-column Jekyll theme, perfect for building personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. As the name implies, styling is purposely minimalistic to be enhanced and customized by you 😄.
- 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.
- UI localized text in English (default), Arabic (عربي), Brazilian Portuguese (Português brasileiro), Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (Français), German (Deutsch), Greek, Hebrew, Hindi (हिंदी), Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish (Gaeilge), Italian (Italiano), Japanese, Kiswahili, Korean, Malayalam, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali (Nepalese), Norwegian (Norsk), Persian (فارسی), Polish, Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Español), Swedish, Thai, Turkish (Türkçe), and Vietnamese.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Post with Header Image | A post with a large header image. |
| HTML Tags and Formatting Post | A variety of common markup showing how the theme styles them. |
| Syntax Highlighting Post | Post displaying highlighted code. |
| Post with a Gallery | A post showing several images wrapped in <figure> elements. |
| Sample Collection Page | Single page from a collection. |
| Categories Archive | Posts grouped by category. |
| Tags Archive | Posts grouped by tag. |
Additional sample posts are available under posts archive on the demo site. Source files for these (and the entire demo site) can be found in /docs.
For detailed instructions on how to configure, customize, add/migrate content, and more read the theme's documentation.