Click Use this template button above for the quickest method of getting started with the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme.
Contains basic configuration to get you a site with:
- Sample posts.
- Sample top navigation.
- Sample author sidebar with social links.
- Sample footer links.
- Paginated home page.
- Archive pages for posts grouped by year, category, and tag.
- Sample about page.
- Sample 404 page.
- Site wide search.
Replace sample content with your own and configure as necessary.
If you have a question about using Jekyll, start a discussion on the Jekyll Forum or StackOverflow. Other resources:
- Ruby 101
- Setting up a Jekyll site with GitHub Pages
- Configuring GitHub Metadata to work properly when developing locally and avoid
No GitHub API authentication could be found. Some fields may be missing or have incorrect data.
warnings.
To run locally
- Install ruby/gem/jekyll (some combination of
# clone repo
git clone git@github.com:simonreeves/blog.git
cd blog/
# install
bundle install
# serve
bundle exec jekyll serve
# I had an error like this:
# /jekyll/commands/serve/servlet.rb:3:in `require': cannot load such file -- webrick (LoadError)
# internet suggested to:
bundle add webrick
# then this worked
bundle exec jekyll serve