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# Minimal Mistakes
Jekyll is pretty rad and figured releasing a cleaned up version of [my setup](http://mademistakes.com) as a theme to hack up and use would be cool. So here be that theme --- I call it **[Minimal Mistakes](http://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes)**, a responsive Jekyll theme with editorial tendencies.
**[Minimal Mistakes](http://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes)** is a two column responsive Jekyll theme perfect for powering your GitHub hosted blog.
## Minimal Mistakes is all about:
* Responsive templates. Looking good on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
* Gracefully degrading in older browsers. Compatible with Internet Explorer 8+ and all modern browsers.
* Minimal embellishments. Content first --- other widget nonsense never.
* Minimal embellishments. Content first; other widget nonsense never.
* Large feature images for posts and pages.
* Simple and clear permalink structure *(ie: domain.com/category/post-title)*
* Simple and clear permalink structure.
* [Custom 404 page](http://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/404.html) to get you started.
* Stylesheets for Pygments and Coderay [syntax highlighting](http://mmistakes.github.io/articles/minimal-mistakes/code-highlighting-post/) to make your code examples look snazzy.
![screenshot of Minimal Mistakes theme](http://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/images/mm-theme-post-600.jpg)
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1. [Install Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com) if you haven't already.
2. Fork the [Minimal Mistakes repo](http://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/)
3. Make it your own and customize, customize, customize.
3. Clone the repo you just forked to your computer.
4. Edit `_config.yml` to personalize your site.
5. Check out the sample posts in `_posts` to see examples for pulling in large feature images, tags, and other YAML data.
6. Read the documentation below for further customization pointers and documentation.
[Download the Theme](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes)
**Pro-tip:** Delete the `gh-pages` branch after cloning and start fresh by branching off `master`. There is a bunch of garbage in `gh-pages` used for the theme's demo site that I'm guessing you don't want on your site.
## [Preview the Theme](http://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes)
---
``` bash
minimal-mistakes/
├── _includes
| ├── author-bio.html //bio stuff goes here
| ├── browser-upgrade.html //displays on IE8 and less
| ├── footer.html //site footer
| ├── head.html //site head
| ├── navigation.html //site top nav
| └── scripts.html //jQuery, plugins, GA, etc.
├── _layouts
| ├── home.html //homepage layout
| ├── page.html //page layout
| ├── post-index.html //post listing layout
| └── post.html //post layout
├── _posts
├── assets
| ├── css //preprocessed less styles. good idea to minify
| ├── img //images and graphics used in css and js
| ├── js
| | ├── main.js //jQuery plugins and settings
| | └── vendor //all 3rd party scripts
| └── less
├── images //images for posts and pages
├── about.md //about page
├── articles.md //lists all posts from latest to oldest
└── index.md //homepage. lists 5 most recent posts
```
## Setup for an Existing Jekyll site
## Customization
### _config.yml
Most of the variables found here are used in the .html files found in `_includes` if you need to add or remove anything. A good place to start would be to change the title, tagline, description, and url of your site. When working locally comment out `url` or else you will get a bunch of broken links because they are absolute and prefixed with `{{ site.url }}` in the various `_includes` and `_layouts`. Just remember to uncomment `url` when building for deployment or pushing to **gh-pages**...
#### Owner/Author Information
Change your name, bio, and avatar photo (100x100 pixels or larger), Twitter url, email, and Google+ url. If you want to link to an external image on Gravatar or something similiar you'll need to edit the path in `author-bio.html` since it assumes it is located in `\images`.
Including a link to your Google+ profile has the added benefit of displaying [Google Authorship](https://plus.google.com/authorship) in Google search results if you've went ahead and applied for it. Don't have a Google+ account? Just leave it blank and/or remove `<link rel="author" href="{{ site.owner.google_plus }}">` from `head.html`.
#### Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools
Your Google Analytics ID goes here along with meta tags for [Google Webmaster Tools](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35179) and [Bing Webmaster Tools](https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/configure/verify/ownershi) site verification.
#### Top Navigation Links
Edit page/post titles and URLs to include in the site's navigation. For external links add `external: true`.
1. Clone the following folders: `_includes`, `_layouts`, `assets`, and `images`.
2. Clone the following files and personalize content as need: `about.md`, `articles.html`, `index.md`, `feed.xml`, `sitemap.xml`
3. Set the following variables in your `config.yml` file:
``` yaml
# sample top navigation links
title: Site Title
description: Describe your website here.
disqus_shortname: shortname
url: http://your-website.com
# Owner/author information
owner:
name: Your Name
avatar: avatar.jpg
bio: "Your bio goes here. It shouldn't be super long but a good two sentences or two should suffice."
email: you@email.com
# Social networking links used in footer. Update and remove as you like.
twitter:
facebook:
github:
stackexchange:
linkedin:
instagram:
flickr:
tumblr:
# For Google Authorship https://plus.google.com/authorship
google_plus:
# Analytics and webmaster tools stuff goes here
google_analytics:
google_verify:
# https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/configure/verify/ownership Option 2 content= goes here
bing_verify:
# Links to include in top navigation
# For external links add external: true
links:
- title: About Page
url: /about
- title: Articles
url: /articles
- title: Other Page
url: /other-page
- title: External Page
- title: Theme Setup
url: /theme-setup
- title: External Link
url: http://mademistakes.com
external: true
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
timezone: America/New_York
future: true
pygments: true
markdown: kramdown
```
#### Other Stuff
The rest is just your average Jekyll config settings. Nothing too crazy here...
### _includes
For the most part you can leave these as is since the author/owner details are pulled from `_config.yml`. That said you'll probably want to customize the copyright stuff in `footer.html` to your liking.
### Adding Posts and Pages
There are two main content layouts: `post.html` (for posts) and `page.html` (for pages). Both have large **feature images** that span the full-width of the screen, and both are meant for text heavy blog posts (or articles).
#### Feature Images
A good rule of thumb is to keep feature images nice and wide so you don't push the body text too far down. An image cropped around around 1024 x 256 pixels will keep file size down with an acceptable resolution for most devices. If you want to serve these images responsively I'd suggest looking at [Picturefill](https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill) or [Adaptive Images](http://adaptive-images.com/).
The two layouts make the assumption that the feature images live in the *images* folder. To add a feature image to a post or page just include the filename in the front matter like so.
``` yaml
image:
feature: feature-image-filename.jpg
thumb: thumbnail-image.jpg #keep it square 200x200 px is good
```
The large texture images used in *Minimal Mistakes* are from [Love Textures](http://lovetextures.com), probably a good idea to swap these out with your own photos...
If you want to apply attribution to a feature image use the following YAML front matter on posts or pages. Image credits appear directly below the feature image with a link back to the original source.
``` yaml
image:
feature: feature-image-filename.jpg
credit: Michael Rose #name of the person or site you want to credit
creditlink: http://mademistakes.com #url to their site or licensing
```
#### Categories
In the sample `_posts` folder you may have noticed `category: articles` in the front matter. I like keeping all posts grouped in the same folder. If you decide to rename or add categories you will need to modify the permalink in `articles.md` along with the filename (if renaming).
For example. Say you want to group all your posts under `blog/` instead of `articles/`. In your post add `category: blog` to the front matter, rename or duplicate `articles.md` to `blog.md` and change the permalink in that file to `permalink: /blog/index.html`.
If done correctly `/blog` should be a page listing all the site's posts.
#### Thumbnails for OG and Twitter Cards
Post and page thumbnails work the same way. These are used by [Open Graph](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/) and [Twitter Cards](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards) meta tags found in `head.html`. If you don't assign a thumbnail the default graphic *(default-thumb.png)* is used. I'd suggest changing this to something more meaningful -- your logo or avatar are good options.
#### Table of Contents
Insert the following HTML in post or page content that you want a *table of contents* to render. [Kramdown will take care of the rest](http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/converter/html.html#toc) and convert all headlines into a contents list.
**PS:** The TOC is hidden on small devices because I haven't gotten around to optimizing it. For now it only shows on tablet and desktop breakpoints...
``` html
<section id="table-of-contents" class="toc">
<header>
<h3>Contents</h3>
</header>
<div id="drawer" markdown="1">
* Auto generated table of contents
{:toc}
</div>
</section><!-- /#table-of-contents -->
```
#### Videos
Video embeds are responsive and scale with the width of the main content block with the help of [FitVids](http://fitvidsjs.com/).
Not sure if this only effects Kramdown or if it's an issue with Markdown in general. But adding YouTube video embeds causes errors when building your Jekyll site. To fix add a space between the `<iframe>` tags and remove `allowfullscreen`. Example below:
``` html
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PWf4WUoMXwg" frameborder="0"> </iframe>
```
#### Twitter Cards
Twitter cards make it possible to attach images and post summaries to Tweets that link to your content. Summary Card meta tags have been added to `head.html` to support this, you just need to [validate and apply your domain](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards) to turn it on.
## Further Customization
To make things easier I use LESS to build Minimal Mistakes' stylesheets. If you want to make some minor cosmetic alterations, take a look at `variables.less` in `assets/less/`. Changing some of the following variables can help make the theme your own. Just compile `main.less` and `ie.less` using your preprocessor of choice and off you go -- I like [CodeKit](http://incident57.com/codekit/) and [Prepros](http://alphapixels.com/prepros/).
``` css
// TYPOGRAPHY ================================================
@basefont: 'PT Serif', serif;
@baseheadingfont: 'PT Sans Narrow', sans-serif;
@codefont: Monaco, Courier New, monospace;
// COLOR ====================================================
@bodycolor : #ebebeb;
@textcolor : #333332;
@basecolor : #343434;
@compcolor : spin(@basecolor, 180);
@bordercolor : @basecolor;
@white : #fff;
@black : #000;
@accentcolor : @black;
/* Links ================================================= */
@linkcolor : #343434;
@linkcolorhover : darken(@linkcolor, 10);
@linkcolorvisited : lighten(@linkcolorhover, 20);
@linkcolorfocus : darken(@linkcolorvisited, 10);
```
---
## Questions?
Having a problem getting something to work or want to know why I setup something in a certain way? Ping me on Twitter [@mmistakes](http://twitter.com/mmistakes) or [file a GitHub Issue](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/issues/new).
Having a problem getting something to work or want to know why I setup something in a certain way? Ping me on Twitter [@mmistakes](http://twitter.com/mmistakes) or [file a GitHub Issue](https://github.com/mmistakes/minima-mistakes/issues/new). And if you make something cool with this theme feel free to let me know.
---
## License
This is [MIT](LICENSE) with no added caveats, so feel free to use this Jekyll theme on your site without linking back to me or using a disclaimer.
If you'd like give me credit somewhere on your blog or tweet a shout out to
[@mmistakes](https://twitter.com/mmistakes), that would be pretty sweet.
This theme is free and open source software, distributed under the [GNU General Public License](http://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/LICENSE) version 2 or later. So feel free to use this Jekyll theme on your site without linking back to me or including a disclaimer.

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title: About the Theme
tagline: Minimal Mistakes, a Jekyll Theme
tags: [about, Jekyll, theme, responsive]
modified: 9-9-2013
image:
feature: texture-feature-02.jpg
credit: Texture Lovers
creditlink: http://texturelovers.com
---
Jekyll is pretty rad and figured releasing a cleaned up version of [my site](http://mademistakes.com) as a theme for others to hack and build on would be fun. So here be that theme --- I call it **Minimal Mistakes**, a responsive Jekyll theme with large featured images and solid typography.
Jekyll is pretty rad and figured releasing a cleaned up version of [my site](http://mademistakes.com)[^1] as a theme for others to hack and build on would be fun. So here be that theme --- I call it **Minimal Mistakes**, a responsive Jekyll theme with large featured images and solid typography.
## Minimal Mistakes is all about:
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* Simple and clear permalink structure *(ie: domain.com/category/post-title)*
<a markdown="0" href="{{ site.url }}/theme-setup" class="btn">Install Minimal Mistakes Theme</a>
[^1]: Since open sourcing this theme I have released a couple other Jekyll themes. My website [Made Mistakes](http://mademistakes.com) is currently using a modified version of my [So Simple Theme](http://mmistakes.github.io/so-simple-theme/).

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{% highlight text %}
minimal-mistakes/
├── _includes
| ├── author-bio.html //bio stuff goes here
| ├── browser-upgrade.html //displays on IE8 and less
| ├── footer.html //site footer
| ├── head.html //site head
| ├── navigation.html //site top nav
| └── scripts.html //jQuery, plugins, GA, etc.
├── _layouts
| ├── home.html //homepage layout
| ├── page.html //page layout
| ├── post-index.html //post listing layout
| └── post.html //post layout
├── _posts
├── assets
| ├── css //preprocessed less styles. good idea to minify
| ├── img //images and graphics used in css and js
| ├── js
| | ├── main.js //jQuery plugins and settings
| | └── vendor //all 3rd party scripts
| └── less
├── images //images for posts and pages
├── about.md //about page
├── articles.md //lists all posts from latest to oldest
└── index.md //homepage. lists 5 most recent posts
├── _includes/
| ├── author-bio.html #bio stuff goes here
| ├── browser-upgrade.html #displays on IE8 and less
| ├── footer.html #site footer
| ├── head.html #site head
| ├── navigation.html #site top nav
| └── scripts.html #jQuery, plugins, GA, etc.
├── _layouts/
| ├── home.html #homepage layout
| ├── page.html #page layout
| ├── post-index.html #post listing layout
| └── post.html #post layout
├── _posts/
├── assets/
| ├── css/ #preprocessed less styles
| ├── fonts/ #icon webfonts
| ├── js/
| | ├── _main.js #Main JavaScript file, plugin settings, etc
| | ├── plugins #jQuery plugins
| | └── vendor/ #jQuery and Modernizr
| └── less/
├── images/ # images for posts and pages
├── about.md # about page
├── articles.md # lists all posts from latest to oldest
└── index.md # homepage. lists 5 most recent posts
{% endhighlight %}
---
## Customization
### _config.yml
Most of the variables found here are used in the .html files found in `_includes` if you need to add or remove anything. A good place to start would be to change the title, tagline, description, and url of your site. When working locally comment out `url` or else you will get a bunch of broken links because they are absolute and prefixed with `{{ "{{ site.url " }}}}` in the various `_includes` and `_layouts`. Just remember to uncomment `url` when building for deployment or pushing to **gh-pages**...
Most of the variables found here are used in the .html files found in `_includes` if you need to add or remove anything. A good place to start would be to change the title, tagline, description, and url of your site. When working locally comment out `url` or else you will get a bunch of broken links because they are absolute and prefixed with `{{ "{{ site.url " }}}}`[^1] in the various `_includes` and `_layouts`. Just remember to uncomment `url` when building for deployment or pushing to **gh-pages**...
#### Owner/Author Information
Change your name, bio, and avatar photo (100x100 pixels or larger), Twitter url, email, and Google+ url. If you want to link to an external image on Gravatar or something similiar you'll need to edit the path in `author-bio.html` since it assumes it is located in `\images`.
Including a link to your Google+ profile has the added benefit of displaying [Google Authorship](https://plus.google.com/authorship) in Google search results if you've went ahead and applied for it. Don't have a Google+ account? Just leave it blank and/or remove `<link rel="author" href="{{ site.owner.google_plus }}">` from `head.html`.
Including a link to your Google+ profile has the added benefit of displaying [Google Authorship](https://plus.google.com/authorship) in Google search results if you've went ahead and applied for it. Don't have a Google+ account? Just leave it blank.
#### Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools
@ -98,9 +101,9 @@ There are two main content layouts: *post.html* (for posts) and *page.html* (for
#### Feature Images
A good rule of thumb is to keep feature images[^2] nice and wide so you don't push the body text too far down. An image cropped around around 1024 x 512 pixels will keep file size down with an acceptable resolution for most devices. On my personal site I use [Picturefill](https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill) to serve the same image responsively in four different flavors (small, medium, large, and extra large). In the interest of keeping things simple with this theme I left that script out, but you can certainly [add it back in](https://github.com/mmistakes/made-mistakes#articles-and-pages) or give [Adaptive Images](http://adaptive-images.com/) a try.
A good rule of thumb is to keep feature images nice and wide so you don't push the body text too far down. An image cropped around around 1024 x 256 pixels will keep file size down with an acceptable resolution for most devices. If you want to serve these images responsively I'd suggest looking at the [Jekyll Picture Tag](https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill) plugin[^2].
The two layouts make the assumption that the feature images live in the *images* folder. To add a feature image to a post or page just include the filename in the front matter like so.
The two layouts make the assumption that the feature images live in the `images/` folder. To add a feature image to a post or page just include the filename in the front matter like so.
{% highlight yaml %}
image:
@ -125,7 +128,7 @@ Post and page thumbnails work the same way. These are used by [Open Graph](https
Any article or page that you want a *table of contents* to render insert the following HTML in your post before the actual content. [Kramdown will take care of the rest](http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/converter/html.html#toc) and convert all headlines into a contents list.
**PS:** The TOC is hidden on small devices because I haven't gotten around to optimizing it. For now it only shows on tablets and desktop viewports...
**PS:** The TOC is hidden on small devices because I haven't gotten around to optimizing it. For now it only appears on larger screens (tablet and desktop).
{: .notice}
{% highlight html %}
@ -150,33 +153,33 @@ Not sure if this only effects Kramdown or if it's an issue with Markdown in gene
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PWf4WUoMXwg" frameborder="0"> </iframe>
{% endhighlight %}
## Further Customization
---
To make things easier I use LESS to build Minimal Mistakes' stylesheets. If you want to make some minor cosmetic alterations, take a look at `variables.less` in `assets/less/`. Changing some of the following variables can help make the theme your own. Just compile `main.less` and `ie.less` using your preprocessor of choice and off you go --- I like [CodeKit](http://incident57.com/codekit/) and [Prepros](http://alphapixels.com/prepros/).
## Theme Development
{% highlight css %}
// TYPOGRAPHY ================================================
@basefont: 'PT Serif', serif;
@baseheadingfont: 'PT Sans Narrow', sans-serif;
@codefont: Monaco, Courier New, monospace;
If you want to easily skin the themes' colors and fonts, take a look at `variables.less` in `assets/less/` and make the necessary changes to the color and font variables. To make development easier I setup a Grunt build script to compile/minify the LESS files into `main.min.css` and lint/concatenate/minify all scripts into `scripts.min.js`. [Install Node.js](http://nodejs.org/), then [install Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/getting-started), and then finally install the dependencies for the theme contained in `package.json`:
// COLOR ====================================================
@bodycolor : #ebebeb;
@textcolor : #333332;
@basecolor : #343434;
@compcolor : spin(@basecolor, 180);
@bordercolor : @basecolor;
@white : #fff;
@black : #000;
@accentcolor : @black;
/* Links ================================================= */
@linkcolor : #343434;
@linkcolorhover : darken(@linkcolor, 10);
@linkcolorvisited : lighten(@linkcolorhover, 20);
@linkcolorfocus : darken(@linkcolorvisited, 10);
{% highlight bash %}
npm install
{% endhighlight %}
From the theme's root, use `grunt` to rebuild the CSS, concatenate JavaScript files, and optimize .jpg, .png, and .svg files in the `images/` folder. You can also use `grunt watch` in combination with `jekyll build --watch` to watch for updates to your LESS and JS files that Grunt will then automatically re-build as you write your code which will in turn auto-generate your Jekyll site when developing locally.
[^1]: Used to generate absolute urls in *sitemap.xml*, *feed.xml*, and for canonical urls in *head.html*. Don't include a trailing `/` in your base url ie: http://mademistakes.com. When developing locally remove or comment out this line so local css, js, and images are used.
And if the command line isn't your thing (you're using Jekyll so it probably is), [CodeKit](http://incident57.com/codekit/) for Mac OS X and [Prepros](http://alphapixels.com/prepros/) for Windows are great alternatives.
[^2]: Feature images supplied by [Love Textures](http://www.lovetextures.com/)
---
## Questions?
Having a problem getting something to work or want to know why I setup something in a certain way? Ping me on Twitter [@mmistakes](http://twitter.com/mmistakes) or [file a GitHub Issue](https://github.com/mmistakes/minima-mistakes/issues/new). And if you make something cool with this theme feel free to let me know.
---
## License
This theme is free and open source software, distributed under the [GNU General Public License]({{ site.url }}/LICENSE) version 2 or later. So feel free to use this Jekyll theme on your site without linking back to me or including a disclaimer.
[^1]: Used to generate absolute urls in `sitemap.xml`, `feed.xml`, and for canonical urls in `head.html`. Don't include a trailing `/` in your base url ie: `http://mademistakes.com`. When developing locally remove or comment out this line so local .css, .js, and images are used.
[^2]: If you're using GitHub Pages to host your site be aware that plugins are disabled. So you'll need to build your site locally and then manually deploy if you want to use this sweet plugin.