mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
:triangular_ruler: Jekyll theme for building a personal site, blog, project documentation, or portfolio.
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[](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/master/LICENSE) [](https://jekyllrb.com/) 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 :smile:. :sparkles: See what's new in the CHANGELOG. Note: The theme uses the jekyll-include-cache plugin which will need to be installed in your Gemfile and must be retained in the plugins array of config.yml. Otherwise you'll encounter Unknown tag 'includecached' errors at build. ![Minimal Mistakes live preview][1] This theme comes in 11 different skins (in addition to the default one). 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. There are three ways to install: as a gem-based theme, as a remote theme (GitHub Pages compatible), or forking/directly copying all of the theme files into your project. With Gem-based themes,…
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- Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme
- Notable features
- Skins (color variations)
- Demo pages
- Installation
- Gem-based method
- Remote theme method
- Usage
- Contributing
- Pull Requests
- Development
- Credits
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What this repository does
:triangular_ruler: Jekyll theme for building a personal site, blog, project documentation, or portfolio.
Repository facts
- Owner
- mmistakes
- Primary language
- HTML
- Stars
- 13,569
- Forks
- 27,194
- Open issues + pull requests
- 22
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2013-05-24T14:13:30.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-08T08:19:39.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: algolia, algolia-search, github-pages, jekyll, jekyll-theme, lunr, ruby-gem, theme
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