Jekyll is a great tool, but it's themes are clunky, ugly and too heavy.
Ultra Minimal Theme strips of everything but the bare bones to create text-based blog posts. Right now, I am adding the CSS in via a link in the head.html file. Some more CSS tweaking is needed to make it work for as little or as many styles as you want to incorporate.
There are two ways to customize CSS. Either insert your own CSS via the custom_styles.scss file in the _sass folder, or add your own style sheet via _includes/head.html. Currently this site is styled using Slightly Better CSS, a lightweight CSS template.
Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:
gem "ultra-minimal-theme"And add this line to your Jekyll site's _config.yml:
theme: ultra-minimal-themeAnd then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install ultra-minimal-theme
Find version information on this theme on RubyGems.
In this directory, you'll find the files you need to be able to package up your theme into a gem. Put your layouts in _layouts, your includes in _includes, your sass files in _sass and any other assets in assets.
To experiment with this code, add some sample content and run bundle exec jekyll serve – this directory is setup just like a Jekyll site!
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.
To set up your environment to develop this theme, run bundle install.
Your theme is setup just like a normal Jekyll site! To test your theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve and open your browser at http://localhost:4000. This starts a Jekyll server using your theme. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal.
When your theme is released, only the files in _layouts, _includes, _sass and assets tracked with Git will be bundled.
To add a custom directory to your theme-gem, please edit the regexp in ultra-minimal-theme.gemspec accordingly.
There is currently a bug with Jekyll and Ruby 3.0, and it's possible you wil be required to run bundle add webrick in order to run the server.
The theme is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.