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title: "Overriding Theme Defaults"
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permalink: /docs/overriding-theme-defaults/
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excerpt: "Instructions on how to customize the theme's default set of layouts, includes, and stylesheets when using the Ruby Gem version."
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last_modified_at: 2018-03-20T15:59:31-04:00
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---
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When installing the theme as a Ruby Gem its layouts, includes, stylesheets, and other assets are all bundled in the `gem`. Meaning they're not easily visible in your project.
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Each of these files can be modified, but you'll need to copy the default version into your project first. For example, if you wanted to modify the default [`single` layout](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/blob/master/_layouts/single.html), you'd start by copying it to `_layouts/single.html`.
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**ProTip**: To locate theme files, run `bundle info minimal-mistakes-jekyll`. Then copy the files you want to override from the returned path, to the appropriate folder in your project.
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{: .notice--info}
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Jekyll will use the files in your project first before falling back to the default versions of the theme. It exhibits this behavior with files in the following folders:
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```
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/assets
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/_layouts
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/_includes
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/_sass
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```
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Additionally, from `v4.5.0` the theme-gem will also exhibit above behavior for `/_data` via a plugin.
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Consequently, the data files for UI Text and Navigation are also bundled within the theme-gem.
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For more information on customizing the theme's [stylesheets]({{ "/docs/stylesheets/" | relative_url }}) and [JavaScript]({{ "/docs/javascript/" | relative_url }}), see the appropriate pages.
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