How-tos with minimal-mistakes

How to make a github.io hosted site with jekyll and minimal-mistakes theme.

First you need to fork the minimal-mistakes repository. Then you need to modify configuration files as it is described in quick-start guide.

How to setup home page with a splash image

If you have index.html in the root folder, you can remove it. In _config.yml disable pagination:

# Outputting
permalink: /:categories/:title/
#paginate: 5 # amount of posts to show
#paginate_path: /page:num/
timezone: # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

Next, _layouts/home.html content looks like here, namely layout: splash.

Header navigation tabs

This is controlled in _data/navigation.yml

Write a post

Create a markdown file named YYYY-MM-DD-Post-Short-Title.md with a content:

---
title: "This title is shown if this field is specified, otherwise filename title is taken"
categories:
  - cat1
tags:
  - tag1
  - tag2
---