Minimal Mistakes

Updated by Michael Rose 1 min read
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Minimal Mistakes is a flexible two-column Jekyll theme. Perfect for hosting your personal site, blog, or portfolio on GitHub or your own server.

Includes responsive layouts (single, archive, and splash pages) that look great on mobile and desktop browsers. As the name implies — styling is purposely minimalistic to be enhanced and customized by you.

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Theme features

  • Compatible with GitHub Pages
  • Several layout options (single, archive, splash pages)
  • SEO optimized with support for Twitter Cards and Open Graph data
  • Optional header images, sidebars, table of contents, galleries, related posts, breadcrumb links, and more.
  • Optional comments (Disqus, Facebook, Google+, Staticman, and custom)
  • Optional analytics (Google Analytics and custom)

splash layout example

single layout with comments and related posts

archive layout example

Usage

To learn more about how to customize this theme, include feature images in posts, modify the look and feel, create new posts, and some other junk, read up here.

License

This theme is free and open source software, distributed under the MIT License.