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Theme Setup |
Instructions on how to install and customize the Jekyll theme Minimal Mistakes. |
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General notes and suggestions for customizing Minimal Mistakes.
- Install Jekyll if you haven't already.
- Fork the Minimal Mistakes repo
- Make it your own and customize, customize, customize.
{% 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 {% endhighlight %}
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...
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 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.
Your Google Analytics ID goes here along with meta tags for Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools site verification.
Edit page/post titles and URLs to include in the site's navigation. For external links add external: true.
{% highlight yaml %}
links:
- title: About Page url: /about
- title: Articles url: /articles
- title: Other Page url: /other-page
- title: External Page url: http://mademistakes.com external: true {% endhighlight %}
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).
A good rule of thumb is to keep feature images1 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 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 or give Adaptive Images a try.
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: feature: feature-image-filename.jpg thumb: thumbnail-image.jpg #keep it square 200x200 px is good {% endhighlight %}
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.
{% highlight 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 {% endhighlight %}
Post and page thumbnails work the same way. These are used by Open Graph and Twitter 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.
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 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... {: .notice}
{% highlight html %}
Video embeds are responsive and scale with the width of the main content block with the help of FitVids.
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:
{% highlight html %}
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PWf4WUoMXwg" frameborder="0"> </iframe> {% endhighlight %}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 and Prepros.
{% highlight 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);
{% endhighlight %}
Footnotes
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Feature images supplied by Love Textures ↩