hacks-guide-minimal-mistakes-theme/_docs/06-navigation.md

title	permalink	excerpt	sidebar	modified
Navigation	/docs/navigation/		title nav v3.0 docs	2016-04-13T15:54:02-04:00

{% include base_path %}

Masthead

The masthead links use a "priority plus" design pattern. Meaning, show as many navigation items that will fit horizontally with a toggle to reveal the rest.

To define these links add titles and URLs under the main key in _data/navigation.yml:

main:
  - title: "Quick-Start Guide"
    url: /docs/quick-start-guide/

  - title: "Posts"
    url: /year-archive/

  - title: "Categories"
    url: /categories/

  - title: "Tags"
    url: /tags/

  - title: "Pages"
    url: /page-archive/

  - title: "Collections"
    url: /collection-archive/

  - title: "External Link"
    url: https://google.com

Which will give you a responsive masthead similar to this:


ProTip: Put the most important links first so they're always visible and not hidden behind the menu toggle. {: .notice--info}

Breadcrumbs (Beta)

Enable breadcrumb links to help visitors better navigate deep sites. Because of the fragile method of implementing them they don't always produce accurate links reliably. For best results:

1. Use a category based permalink structure e.g. permalink: /:categories/:title/
2. Manually create pages for each category or use a plugin like jekyll-archives to auto-generate them. If these pages don't exist breadcrumb links to them will be broken.


breadcrumbs: true  # disabled by default

Breadcrumb start link text and separator character can both be changed in _data/ui-text.yml.

breadcrumb_home_label : "Home"
breadcrumb_separator  : "/"

For breadcrumbs that resemble something like Start > Blog > My Awesome Post you'd apply these settings:

breadcrumb_home_label : "Start"
breadcrumb_separator  : ">"