hacks-guide-minimal-mistake.../_docs/02-structure.md

---
title: "Structure"
permalink: /docs/structure/
excerpt: "How the theme is organized and what all of the files are for."
sidebar:
  title: "v3.0"
  nav: docs
modified: 2016-04-13T15:54:02-04:00
---

Nothing clever here :wink:. Layouts, data files, and includes are all placed in their default locations. Stylesheets and scripts in `assets`, and a few development related files in the project's root directory.

```bash
minimal-mistakes
├── _data                      # data files for customizing the theme
|  ├── navigations.yml         # main navigation links
|  └── ui-text.yml             # text used throughout the theme's UI
├── _includes
|  ├── analytics-providers     # snippets for analytics (Google and custom)
|  ├── comments-providers      # snippets for comments (Disqus, Facebook, Google+, and custom)
|  ├── footer                  # custom snippets to add to site footer
|  ├── head                    # custom snippets to add to site head
|  ├── base_path               # site.url + site.baseurl shortcut
|  ├── feature_row             # feature row helper
|  ├── gallery                 # image gallery helper
|  ├── group-by-array          # group by array helper for archives
|  ├── nav_list                # navigation list helper
|  ├── toc                     # table of contents helper
|  └── ...
├── _layouts
|  ├── archive-taxonomy.html   # tag/category archive for Jekyll Archives plugin
|  ├── archive.html            # archive listing documents in an array
|  ├── compress.html           # compresses HTML in pure Liquid
|  ├── default.html            # base for all other layouts
|  ├── single.html             # single document (post/page/etc)
|  └── splash.html             # splash page
├── assets
|  ├── _scss                   # stylesheet source files
|  |  ├── vendor               # vendor SCSS partials
|  |  ├── main.scss            # imports all SCSS partials
|  |  └── ...                  # theme SCSS partials
|  ├── css
|  |  └── main.css             # optimized stylesheet loaded in <head>
|  ├── fonts
|  |  └── fontawesome-webfont  # Font Awesome webfonts
|  ├── js
|  |  ├── plugins              # jQuery plugins
|  |  ├── vendor               # vendor scripts
|  |  ├── _main.js             # plugin settings and other scripts to load after jQuery
|  |  └── main.min.js          # optimized and concatenated script file loaded before </body>
├── images                     # image assets for posts/pages/collections/etc.
├── _config.yml                # site configuration
├── Gemfile                    # gem file dependencies
├── Gemfile.lock               # gem file dependencies
├── index.html                 # paginated home page showing recent posts
└── package.json               # NPM build scripts
```
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			`title: "Structure"`
			`permalink: /docs/structure/`
Update docs' excerpts 2016-04-14 15:20:44 +02:00			`excerpt: "How the theme is organized and what all of the files are for."`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			`sidebar:`
Add title to nav_list helper 2016-04-06 03:50:10 +02:00			`title: "v3.0"`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			`nav: docs`
Update docs 2016-04-13 23:10:01 +02:00			`modified: 2016-04-13T15:54:02-04:00`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			`---`

Update docs 2016-04-13 23:10:01 +02:00			Nothing clever here :wink:. Layouts, data files, and includes are all placed in their default locations. Stylesheets and scripts in `assets`, and a few development related files in the project's root directory.
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			```bash
			`minimal-mistakes`
Add images to docs 2016-04-05 03:16:25 +02:00			`├── _data # data files for customizing the theme`
			`\| ├── navigations.yml # main navigation links`
Update docs 2016-04-13 23:10:01 +02:00			`\| └── ui-text.yml # text used throughout the theme's UI`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			`├── _includes`
Add images to docs 2016-04-05 03:16:25 +02:00			`\| ├── analytics-providers # snippets for analytics (Google and custom)`
			`\| ├── comments-providers # snippets for comments (Disqus, Facebook, Google+, and custom)`
			`\| ├── footer # custom snippets to add to site footer`
			`\| ├── head # custom snippets to add to site head`
			`\| ├── base_path # site.url + site.baseurl shortcut`
			`\| ├── feature_row # feature row helper`
			`\| ├── gallery # image gallery helper`
Update docs 2016-04-13 23:10:01 +02:00			`\| ├── group-by-array # group by array helper for archives`
Add images to docs 2016-04-05 03:16:25 +02:00			`\| ├── nav_list # navigation list helper`
Update docs 2016-04-13 23:10:01 +02:00			`\| ├── toc # table of contents helper`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			`\| └── ...`
			`├── _layouts`
Add images to docs 2016-04-05 03:16:25 +02:00			`\| ├── archive-taxonomy.html # tag/category archive for Jekyll Archives plugin`
			`\| ├── archive.html # archive listing documents in an array`
			`\| ├── compress.html # compresses HTML in pure Liquid`
			`\| ├── default.html # base for all other layouts`
			`\| ├── single.html # single document (post/page/etc)`
			`\| └── splash.html # splash page`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			`├── assets`
Update docs 2016-04-13 23:10:01 +02:00			`\| ├── _scss # stylesheet source files`
Add images to docs 2016-04-05 03:16:25 +02:00			`\| \| ├── vendor # vendor SCSS partials`
Update docs 2016-04-13 23:10:01 +02:00			`\| \| ├── main.scss # imports all SCSS partials`
			`\| \| └── ... # theme SCSS partials`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			`\| ├── css`
Update docs 2016-04-13 23:10:01 +02:00			`\| \| └── main.css # optimized stylesheet loaded in <head>`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			`\| ├── fonts`
Add images to docs 2016-04-05 03:16:25 +02:00			`\| \| └── fontawesome-webfont # Font Awesome webfonts`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			`\| ├── js`
Add images to docs 2016-04-05 03:16:25 +02:00			`\| \| ├── plugins # jQuery plugins`
			`\| \| ├── vendor # vendor scripts`
Update docs 2016-04-13 23:10:01 +02:00			`\| \| ├── _main.js # plugin settings and other scripts to load after jQuery`
			`\| \| └── main.min.js # optimized and concatenated script file loaded before </body>`
Add images to docs 2016-04-05 03:16:25 +02:00			`├── images # image assets for posts/pages/collections/etc.`
			`├── _config.yml # site configuration`
			`├── Gemfile # gem file dependencies`
			`├── Gemfile.lock # gem file dependencies`
			`├── index.html # paginated home page showing recent posts`
			`└── package.json # NPM build scripts`
Reorder docs navigation 2016-04-04 22:36:26 +02:00			```