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Installing a theme in Jekyll

by Vincent Arnoux ~1 min read

How to install and use a theme in Jekyll (here using https://github.com/mmistakes/jekyll-theme-basically-basic)

  1. Add this line to your Jekyll site’s Gemfile: gem "jekyll-theme-basically-basic"
  2. Add this line to your Jekyll site’s _config.yml file: theme: jekyll-theme-basically-basic
  3. Then run Bundler to install the theme gem and dependencies: bundle install
  4. Download the theme’s files (GitHub repository)
  5. Remove useless files. For this theme: .editorconfig .gitattributes .github .scss-lint.yml CHANGELOG.md jekyll-theme-basically-basic.gemspec LICENSE Rakefile README.md screenshot.png /docs /example