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About the Jekyll Theme

Photo Credit: Michael Rose

About the Jekyll Theme

Looking for a simple, responsive, theme for your Jekyll powered blog? Well look no further. Here be So Simple Theme, the followup to Minimal Mistakes — by designer slash illustrator Michael Rose.

So Simple Theme is all about:

  • Responsive templates. Looking good on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
  • Gracefully degrading in older browsers. Compatible with Internet Explorer 9+ and all modern browsers.
  • Minimal embellishments and subtle animations.
  • Readable typography to make your words shine.
  • Support for large images to call out your favorite posts.
  • Disqus comments if you choose to enable.
  • Simple and clear permalink structure1.
  • Tags for Open Graph and Twitter Cards for a better social sharing experience.
  • Vanilla custom 404 page to get you started.
  • Stylesheets for Pygments and Coderay syntax highlighting to make your code examples look snazzy.
  • Simple search that overlays results based on post title.
  • Grunt build script for easier theme development.
  • Sitemap for search engines

Install Minimal Mistakes Theme

  1. Example: domain.com/category-name/post-title