The Plain is a minimalist Jekyll theme, designed to focus on writing that really matters to you and your audience. Everything else is just a distraction. Nothing more other than useful and understandable information sharing. This theme is best suited for a personal blog type, but not limited to that.
P/S: This theme is originally inspired by Leonard Lamprecht's leo theme, thanks!
Minimalism is a masterpiece of tranquility. -- Heiswayi Nrird
NOTE This does NOT work on github, see the next section.
Put this in your Gemfile:
gem 'the-plain'
and run bundle install to install the plugin.
Add this to your sites _config.yml file:
theme: the-plain
Then copy some of the settings from this repos _config.yml file to your own, and adjust them.
GitHub - for your user account pages or repository gh-pages - only supports a limited set of themes.
Therefore, you need to use the 'remote_theme:' setting instead of 'theme:', which is supported by a 3rd party plugin.
Put this in your Gemfile:
gem 'jekyll-remote-theme'
and run bundle install to install the plugin.
Add the following to your site's _config.yml to activate the plugin and to select this theme:
plugins:
- jekyll-remote-theme
remote_theme: heiswayi/the-plain
This will grab the theme directly from the github repo.
Now copy some of the settings from this repos _config.yml file to your own, and adjust them.
Many thanks to this themes contributors that help fixing bugs or enhancing source code.