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Minimal Mistakes

Minimal, flexible Jekyll blog theme

Minimal Mistakes – A Flexible, Minimal Jekyll Theme

Minimal Mistakes is one of the most popular Jekyll themes in the open-source community. It’s perfect for building personal websites, blogs, portfolios, or project documentation sites with a clean and professional design.

The theme embraces minimalism in styling and encourages customization through its flexible configuration options, including multiple layouts, skins, localization, and integrations.

Features

Bundled as a theme gem for easy installation/upgrading
Compatible with GitHub Pages
Supports Jekyll’s SCSS preprocessor
Includes 9 color skins
Various responsive layouts: blog, archive, search, splash, and paginated home
SEO optimized with Twitter Cards and Open Graph support
Built-in support for Disqus, utterances, giscus, and other commenting systems
Google Analytics integration
Localized UI in 40+ languages
Actively maintained and open source

Getting Started

You can install the theme using RubyGems and set up your site with just a few lines in your _config.yml. It’s designed to be easy for both beginners and experienced developers.

👉 View Demo
👉 Theme Docs
👉 GitHub Repository