Applying remote theme to Jekyll

Jekyll blog with remote theme

You can find free Jekyll themes HERE!

Easiest way to build a jekyll pages

Clone https://github.com/mmistakes/mm-github-pages-starter

Then, modify _config.yml

From scratch approach

Create new jekyll page with

$ jekyll new .

Edit Gemfile

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins

gem "tzinfo-data"
gem "wdm", "~> 0.1.0" if Gem.win_platform?

# If you have any plugins, put them here!
group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem "jekyll-paginate"
  gem "jekyll-sitemap"
  gem "jekyll-gist"
  gem "jekyll-feed"
  gem "jemoji"
  gem "jekyll-include-cache"
  gem "jekyll-algolia"
end

Update packages

$ bundle

Edit config file

_config.yml

# .....
# Add below remoth_theme item, right value would be github repo address
remote_theme: mmistakes/minimal-mistakes

plugins:
# ... lists
# Add below `jekyll-include-cache` if you use minimal-mistakes theme
  - jekyll-include-cache

But highly recommanded use clone previously organized repository.