History

Unreleased

Enhancements

  • Add alt description to avatar image. #1226
  • Clarify documentation about which assets folders and files to remove when migrating to the gem version of the theme. #1268
  • Add note about Staticman GitHub compatibility. #1273

4.6.0

Enhancements

  • Test strict Front Matter in /test site. #1236
  • Rename gems key to plugins. #1239
  • Add YIQ Color Contrast mixin for determining lightness of a color.
  • DRY up button CSS using Sass lists and YIQ Color Contrast mixin.
  • Add btn--primary button class. Note: elements that were previously using only a .btn class will now also need .btn--primary (eg. <a class="btn btn--primary" href="#">my link</a>).
  • Add air, contrast, dark, dirt, mint, and sunrise skin color options. #1208
  • Allow scripts in <head> and before </body> to be added/overridden with head_scripts and footer_scripts arrays in _config.yml. #1241
  • Update JavaScript dependencies: jQuery v3.2.1, jQuery Smooth Scroll v2.2.0, and Magnific Popup v1.1.0. #328690652

4.5.2

Enhancements

  • Add .page__comments-form to “non-printing” selectors in print styles. #1195
  • Add LinkedIn and Steam author sidebar examples to _config.yml. #1203 #1204
  • Remove the http-equiv=”cleartype” meta tag. #1087
  • Clarify documentation for jekyll-archives plugin and how to install. #1206
  • Clarify documentation around taxonomy page and index generation. #1207
  • Fix “Posts by tag” grammar in documentation. #1209
  • Improve Chinese date_label and minute_read translations in ui-text.yml. #1205 #1211
  • Add note to Quick-Start Guide about GitHub Pages hosting alternatives that allow 3rd party gem themes and Jekyll plugins.
  • Add note to configuration documentation about Cloudflare minification as an alternative to layout: compress. #1217
  • Show 4 latest posts in “You May Also Enjoy” module when related: true and no related posts are found due to lsi (latent semantic indexing) being disabled on GitHub Pages. #554
  • Truncate archive item titles’ that overflow with an ellipsis. #1213

Bug Fixes

  • Fix license URL in README file. #1189
  • Reduce amount of blank pages when printing in Chrome. #1196
  • Remove #disqus_thread duplicate from comments-providers/disqus.html as it is already in comments.html include. #1199
  • Fix Liquid syntax errors in tag-list.html and category-list.html includes by removing parenthesis in assigns. #1223
  • Fix Liquid syntax error: “Expected id but found open_square in "{{ page.[include.id] }}"” in gallery and feature_row includes.
  • Fix Liquid syntax error: “Expected end_of_string but found pipe in "name in __names | sort"” in group-by-array include.

4.5.1

Enhancements

  • Add Greek and Danish localized UI text strings. #1159 #1188
  • Remove blank YAML Front Matter from JavaScript banner. #1158
  • Improve page and archive layouts to visually center main content and harmonize sidebar widths and placement. #1166
  • Increase font-size of code blocks.
  • Reduce indent of nested “table of contents” links.
  • Extend archive grid view to the right to better fill the page.
  • URL encode title and page URL in social share links. #1177
  • Replace old Disqus script with new Universal Embed Code. #1179

Bug Fixes

  • Fix positioning of sidebar table of contents when using layout: splash. #1169
  • Fix “follow” links z-index order to avoid overlapping issues. #1167

Maintenance

  • Fix typo words_per_minute typo in documentation. #1164
  • Remove outside and right borders in tables.
  • Adjust width of .sidebar to match .sidebar__right.
  • Add sample documents to “portfolio” collection for testing grid view.
  • Fix typo in stylesheets documentation. #1170
  • Add note about setting Discourse server as a scheme-less URL (eg. meta.discourse.com and not http://meta.discourse.com) in _config.yml. #1182

4.5.0

Enhancements

  • Add scrollbar to sidebars with overflowing content that extends outside the viewport’s height. #706
  • Add missing Spanish UI text strings. #1118
  • Update Susy to version 3 and rewrite grid CSS to be more readable.
  • Refactor intro animations into a separate Sass variable $intro-transition to allow for customizing. #1147
  • Add jekyll-data as a dependency to read data files from theme-gem. #1131
  • Add support for customizing header image alternative text through YAML Front Matter. #1138

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Sass DEPRECATION WARNING: Passing a string to call() by upgrading Susy to version 3. #1114
  • Fix disappearing author profile links due to tapping the “Follow” button and changing a browser’s viewport width to > $lg. #1136

Maintenance

  • Replace reference to “Basically Basic theme” with Minimal Mistakes. #1149
  • Add documentation for disabling CSS3 animations. #1150
  • Update quickstart, installation, and overriding defaults documentation. #1151

4.4.2

Enhancements

  • Add Swedish, Dutch, and Indonesian localized UI text strings. #996 #1081 #1101
  • Add Bitbucket social icon color. #1009
  • Add GitLab to author sidebar. #1050
  • Add Sass variable for navicon link hover color. #1089 #1088

Bug Fixes

  • Toggle close button on mouseleave. #975
  • Remove extraneous </a> and </li> tags from paginator.html include. #1038
  • Fix Google+ comments provider includes. #1092
  • Replace category variable used in _includes/breadcrumbs.html to site.category_archive to avoid conflicts with site.categories. #1063 #329

Maintenance

  • Add mention of Greek localized UI text strings to theme documentation. #972
  • Update Greek localized UI text strings. #1054
  • Add documentation for adding teaser images in grid view using header.teaser.

4.4.1

Enhancements

  • Add Greek localized UI text strings. #958

Bug Fixes

  • Fix video helper to load Vimeo videos over https. #945
  • Fix close menu button that was removed when updating Greedy navigation script. #969

4.4.0

Enhancements

  • Move SCSS partials to /_sass/minimal-mistakes for easier CSS customization.
  • Replace modified with last_modified_at to leverage various Jekyll plugins that utilize this variable. #930
  • Add Lithuanian localized UI text. #924
  • Improve print stylesheet by increasing text contrast, removing elements that don’t need to be printed, expanding URLs, and reducing amount of blank pages. #909

Maintenance

  • Remove extra word in comment. #911
  • Fix typo in Utility Class docs. #915

4.3.1

Bug Fixes

  • Fix .masthead and .page__footer overlapping full screen video elements. #933
  • Correctly show Related Posts heading when UI Text data file is omitted and related: true in YAML Front Matter. #901

4.3.0

Enhancements

  • Add workaround to allow theme gem’s /assets/js/main.min.js file to be overridden by a local version. Simply add the following YAML Front Matter to the file:

    ---
layout: 
---

    Any local customizations you make to /assets/js/main.min.js should now replace the theme gem’s version.

4.2.2

Enhancements

  • Update Greedy Navigation to flexbox version to make it more flexible when dealing with long site titles (site.title). #836
  • Adjust box-shadow in navigation and author sidebar. #576
  • Add Russian, Korean, and zh-TW localized UI text. #815 #834 #838

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Discourse embedded comments bug. #823
  • Fix seo_author default value in seo.html and add author meta. #858

Maintenance

  • Add theme meta info to _layouts/default.html and main.css.
  • Update README.
  • Improve the pagination and taxonomy archive documentation. #826
  • Add comments to /docs/_config.yml to clarify use of YAML references. #847

4.2.1

Enhancements

  • Improve paginator.html to support paginated pages that live inside of a subfolder. See documentation for more details. #764

Maintenance

  • Add https protocol to Google Universal Analytics embed. #772

4.2.0

Enhancements

  • Add video helper (for YouTube/Vimeo) and video headers to single, archive, and splash layouts. #788
  • Add missing simplified Chinese localized UI text strings. #747
  • Add Nepali (Nepalese) localized UI text strings. #785
  • Remove borders from table elements found in Google Custom Search Engine widget. #759

Bug Fixes

  • Remove position: sticky JavaScript polyfill and fallback to default positioning for browsers that don’t support it. #752

Maintenance

  • Fix invalid Google Universal Analytics example in documentation. #783
  • Bump jekyll-sitemap gem dependency to (1.0).

4.1.1

Enhancements

  • Remove hardcoded words_per_minute “less than” and “minute read” values and make dynamic. #703
  • Update Font Awesome to v4.7.0. #723, #722
  • Add support for YouTube channel URLs in author profile. #716

Bug Fixes

  • Add Jekyll as spec.add_runtime_dependency in .gemspec.

4.1.0

Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • Fix link to Discourse.org homepage in noscript section #699
  • Fix padding issue with pagination buttons #694

4.0.10

Bug Fixes

  • Add Staticman default path. #683

Maintenance

  • Slight correction/improvements to French UI text. #685

4.0.9

Bug Fixes

  • Fix overlapping sidebar navigation lists due to max-height: 100vh. #668

4.0.8

Bug Fixes

  • Set default value for words_per_minute. #657
  • Adjust sidebar navigation list CSS so it collapses at the correct width.

Maintenance

  • Add Google AdSense banner to /docs/_layouts/default.html for demo site.

4.0.7

Enhancements

  • Add !default values to _sass/_variables.scss.
  • Collapse sidebar navigation lists on smaller screens. #607

Bug Fixes

  • Rename #comments to something more unique to avoid clashes with Kramdown generated headline IDs. #582

Maintenance

  • Reorganize SCSS partials in assets/css/main.scss

4.0.6

Enhancements

  • Add figure helper to make generating a <figure> element with a single image and caption easier. #572
  • Add structured data markup for itemprop="person" in author profile sidebar. #647

Bug Fixes

  • Fix improper YAML formatting of some locales. #651

Maintenance

  • Clarify “migrating to gem-theme” instructions in Quick Start Guide.
  • Add rake preview task for testing /test during theme development.

4.0.5

Enhancements

  • Update gems: jekyll-sitemap (0.12), jekyll-feed (0.8).
  • Improve next/previous pager links visibility by changing gray color to blue ($link-color).

Bug Fixes

  • Fix .sidebar flicker/jump when hovered. #583

Maintenance

  • Move contents of gh-pages branch to master inside of the /docs folder.

4.0.4

Enhancements

  • “Gemify” theme ~> gem "minimal-mistakes-jekyll"
  • Replace base_path include with absolute_url filter where possible.
  • Allow images to be placed in other folders. Remove /images/ only restriction and encourage placement in /assets/images/ instead. Full paths are now required. If upgrading from MM 3.4 add /images/ before filenames in Front Matter and _config.yml variables.
  • Add home layout
  • Added missing Turkish translations for UI text. #621
  • Make author avatar optional in sidebar.
  • Update /_includes/seo.html for meta description. #558

Bug Fixes

  • Fix navigation bar animation “flicker” in Safari #568
  • Fix author.avatar paths for externally hosted images.

Maintenance

  • Add documentation around gem "minimal-mistakes-jekyll" installation and use.
  • Add note about using full image paths for eg. assets/images/filename.jpg (header images, overlays, galleries, feature rows, etc.) instead of assuming they will always be in /images/.
  • Add “Overriding Theme Defaults” page to documentation.

3.4.8

Enhancements

  • Improve type readability for larger viewports by bumping up base font-size. #533
  • Update Portuguese localized UI text. #541
  • Add page.title and via parameter to Twitter share link. #538

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Last.fm author profile URL. #540

Maintenance

  • Move Brazilian Portuguese localized text under pt-BR key.

3.4.7

Enhancements

  • Add layout based and user-defined class names to <body> element for added CSS hooks. #526
  • Add simplified Chinese localized UI text. #532

Bug Fixes

  • Remove duplicate include of base_path in category-list.html #522

3.4.6

Enhancements

  • Add Italian “comments” related localized UI text. #514

Bug Fixes

  • Disable compress HTML layout by default. To enable add layout: compress to _layouts/default.html.

3.4.5

Enhancements

  • Improve line numbered code block styling when using {% highlight linenos %} tag. #513
  • Add English fallback to “Follow” button label. #496

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Firefox alignment issues with code blocks generated with the {% highlight %} tag. #512

Maintenance

  • Clarified comment for author.stackoverflow value used in author sidebar links. #487
  • Add list of localized text strings. #488
  • Add {% highlight %} code block examples to demo site.
  • Add documentation for using custom sidebar navigation menus. #476

3.4.4

Enhancements

  • Add French “comments” related localized UI text. #472

Bug Fixes

  • Exclude vendor in Jekyll config file.
  • Fix Liquid syntax error for offending parenthesis. #479

Maintenance

  • Update gems: colorator (1.1.0), forwardable-extended (2.6.0), github-pages (93), jekyll (= 3.2.1), minima (= 1.0.1).

3.4.3

Enhancements

  • Make “honeypot” input in Staticman comment form less obvious to spam bots
  • Add padding to .highlight code blocks to better align overflow scrollbar to the bottom.
  • Add additional image options for Twitter card social sharing meta tags. #466
  • Add structured data markup for Staticman comments. #458

Bug Fixes

  • Format og:locale tag with _ instead of -. #462

Maintenance

  • Add note to docs about using url: http://localhost:4000 when working locally.

3.4.2

Enhancements

  • Improve UX of static comment forms. #448

3.4.1

Enhancements

  • Add staticman.filename configuration with UNIX timestamp for sorting data files. example ~> comment-1470943149.

Bug Fixes

  • Don’t add <a> to author name if URL is blank.

3.4.0

Enhancements

  • Support static-based commenting via Staticman for sites hosted with GitHub Pages. #424

3.3.7

Bug Fixes

  • Re-enabled Jekyll plugins in _config.yml in case they aren’t autoloaded in Gemfile. #417

Enhancements

Maintenance

3.3.6

Bug Fixes

  • Fix blank site.teaser bug #412

3.3.5

Enhancements

  • Add English default text site.locale strings #407
  • Add Portuguese localized UI text. #411
  • Add Italian localized UI text. #409

Maintenance

  • Remove unused Google AdSense variables in _config.yml #404
  • Update Gemfile instructions for using github-pages vs. native jekyll gems.
  • Disable gems: in _config.yml and enable plugins with Bundler instead.
  • Add repository to _config.yml to suppress GitHub Pages error Liquid Exception: No repo name found.

3.3.4

Enhancements

  • Add support for configurable feed URL to use a service like FeedBurner instead of linking directly to feed.xml in <head> and the site footer. #378, #379, #406
  • Add Turkish localized UI text. #403

Maintenance

  • Update gems: activesupport (4.2.7), ffi (1.9.14), github-pages (88), jekyll-redirect-from (0.11.0), jekyll-watch (1.5.0).

3.3.3

Enhancements

  • Make footer stick to the bottom of the page.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix gallery size bug #402

Maintenance

  • Set default lang to en.

Enhancements

  • Make footer stick to the bottom of the page.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix gallery size bug #402

Maintenance

  • Set default lang to en.

3.3.2

Bug Fixes

  • Fix JavaScript that triggers “sticky” sidebar to avoid layout issues on screen sizes < 1024px. #396

3.3.1

Enhancements

  • Enable image popup on < 500px wide screens. #385
  • Indicate the relationship between component URLs in a paginated series by applying rel="prev" and rel="next" to pages that use site.paginator. #253
  • Improve link posts in archive listings. #276

Maintenance

  • Update gems: github-pages (86), ffi 1.9.13, jekyll-mentions 1.1.3, and rouge 1.11.1
  • Fix note about custom sidebar content appearing below author profile. #388

3.2.13

Enhancement

  • Add English default UI text for Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. #377
  • Switch default locale from en-US to en.

3.2.12

Enhancements

  • Remove window width “magic number” from sticky sidebar check in main.js for improved flexibility. #375

Bug Fixes

  • Fix author override conditional where a missing authors.yml would show broken sidebar content. Defaults to site.author. #376

3.2.11

Bug Fixes

  • Fix disappearing author sidebar links #372

Maintenance

  • Update gems: github-pages (84), jekyll-github-metadata 2.0.2, and kramdown 1.11.1
  • Update vendor JavaScript: jQuery 1.12.4, Stickyfill.js 1.1.4
  • Update Font Awesome 4.6.3

3.2.10

Maintenance

  • Add CONTRIBUTING.md

3.2.9

Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Person typo Schema.org type #358

Maintenance

  • Update github-pages gem and dependencies.
  • Remove minutes_read to avoid awkward reading time wording #356

3.2.8

Bug Fixes

  • Remove cursor: pointer that appears on white-space surrounding author side list items and links. #354

Maintenance

  • Add contributing information to README.md. #357

3.2.7

Enhancements

  • Add French localized UI text. #346

Bug Fixes

  • Fix branch logic for Yandex and Alexa in seo.html. #348

3.2.6

Bug Fixes

  • Fix error Liquid Exception: divided by 0 in _includes/archive-single.html, included in _layouts/single.html caused by null words_per_minute in _config.yml. #345

3.2.5

Bug Fixes

  • Fix link color in hero overlay to be white.
  • Remove underlines from archive item titles.

3.2.4

Enhancements

  • Improve text alignment of masthead, hero overlay, page footer to be flush left and remove awkward white-space gaps. #342
  • Add Spanish localized UI text. #338

Bug Fixes

  • Fix alignment of icons in author sidebar #341

Maintenance

  • Add background color to page footer to set it apart from main content. #342
  • Add terms and privacy policy to theme’s demo site. #343
  • Update screenshots found in theme documentation.

3.2.3

Enhancement

3.2.2

Enhancement

  • Add support for image captions in Magnific Popup overlays via the gallery helper #334

3.2.1

Bug Fixes

  • Remove need for “double tapping” masthead menu links on iOS devices. #315

Maintenance

  • Add ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md for improve issue submission process.

3.2.0

Bug Fixes

  • Fix missing category/tag links in post footer due to possible conflict with site.tags and site.categories. #329

3.1.8

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Liquid Exception: undefined method 'gsub' for nil:NilClass in _layouts/single.html error when page.title is null. <h1> element is now conditional if title: is not set for a page or collection item. #312

Maintenance

  • Remove duplicate fa-twitter and fa-twitter-square classes from _utilities.scss. #302

  • Document installing additional Jekyll gem dependencies when using gem "jekyll" instead of gem "github-pages" to avoid any errors on run. #305

3.1.7

Enhancement

  • Add translation key for “Recent Posts” used in home page index.html. #316

Maintenance

  • Small fix to avoid underlying the whitespace between icons and related text when hovering. #303

3.1.6

Maintenance

  • Update gem dependencies. Run bundle to update Gemfile.lock.

3.1.5

Maintenance

  • Fix www and https links in author profile include #293

3.1.4

Enhancements

  • Add overlay_filter param to hero headers #298

3.1.3

Enhancements

  • Improve site.locale documentation #284
  • Remove ProTip note about protocol-less site.url as it is an anti-pattern #288

Bug Fixes

  • Fix og_image URL in seo.html #277
  • Fix author_profile toggle when assigned in a _layout #285
  • Fix typo in build:all npm script #283
  • Fix URL typo documentation #287
  • SEO author bug. If twitter.username is set and author.twitter is nil bad things happen. #289

3.1.2

Enhancement

  • Explain how to use nav_list helper in documentation.
  • Reduce left/right padding on smaller screens to increase width of main content column.

3.1.1

Bug Fix

  • Fixed reading time bug when words_per_minute wasn’t set in _config.yml #271

3.1.0

Enhancements

  • Updated Font Awesome to version 4.6.1
  • Added optional GitHub and Bitbucket links to footer if set on site.author in _config.yml.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Bitbucket URL typo in author sidebar.

3.0.3

Enhancements

  • Rebuilt the entire theme: layouts, includes, stylesheets, scripts, you name it.
  • Refreshed the look and feel while staying true to the original design of the theme (author sidebar/main content).
  • Replaced grid system with Susy.
  • Replaced Grunt tasks with npm scripts.
  • Removed Google Fonts and replaced with system fonts to improve performance (they can be added back if desired)
  • Greatly improved theme documentation.
  • Increased the amount of sample posts, sample pages, and sample collections to throughly test the theme and edge-cases.
  • Moved all sample content and assets out of master to keep it as clean as possible for forking.
  • Added new layouts for splash pages, archives for jekyll-archives if enabled, and compress.html to improve performance.
  • Added taxonomy links to posts (tags and categories).
  • Added optional “reading time” meta data.
  • Improved Liquid used for Twitter Cards and Open Graph data in <head>.
  • Improved gallery include helper and added feature_row for use with splash page layout.
  • Added Keybase.io, author web URI, and Bitbucket optional links to sidebar.
  • Add feed.xml link to footer.
  • Added a UI text data file to easily change all text found in the theme.
  • Added LinkedIn to optional social share buttons.
  • Added Facebook, Google+, and custom commenting options in addition to Disqus.
  • Added optional breadcrumb links.

2.2.1

2.2.0

Enhancements

  • Add support for Jekyll 3.0
  • Minor updates to syntax highlighting CSS and theme documentation

2.1.3

Enhancements

  • Cleaner print styles that remove the top navigation, social sharing buttons, and other elements not needed when printed.

2.1.2

Enhancements

  • Add optional CodePen icon/url to author side bar #156
  • Documented Stackoverflow username explanation in _config.yml #157
  • Simplified Liquid in post-index.html to better handle year listings #166

Bug Fixes

  • Cleanup Facebook related Open Graph meta tags #149
  • Corrected minor typos #158 #175

2.1.1

Enhancements

  • Add optional XING profile link to author sidebar
  • Include open graph meta tags for feature image (if assigned) #149
  • Create an include for feed footer

Bug Fixes

  • Remove http protocol from Google search form on sample 404 page
  • Only show related posts if there are one or more available
  • Fix alignment of email address link in author sidebar

2.1.0

Enhancements

  • Add optional social sharing buttons (#42)

social sharing buttons

  • Add Soundcloud, YouTube (#95), Flickr (#119), and Weibo (#116) icons for use in author sidebar.
  • Fix typos in posts and documentation and remove references to Less
  • Include note about Octopress gem being optional
  • Post author override support extended to the Atom feed (#71)
  • Only include email address in feed if specified in _config.yml or author _data
  • Wrap all page content in #main to harmonize article and post index styles (#86)
  • Include new sample feature images for posts and pages
  • Table of contents improvements: fix collapse toggle, indent nested elements, show on small screens, and create an _include for reusing in posts and pages.
  • Include note about running Jekyll with bundle exec when using Bundler
  • Fix home page path in top navigation
  • Remove Google Authorship (#120)
  • Remove duplicate author content that displayed in div.article-author-bottom
  • Removed unused _sass/print.scss styles
  • Improve comments in .scss files

2.0.0

1.3.3

Enhancements

  • Added new icons and profile links for Stackoverflow, Dribbble, Pinterest, Foursquare, and Steam to the author bio sidebar.
  • Cleaned up the Kramdown auto table of contents styling to be more readable
  • Removed page width specific .less stylesheets and created mixins for easier updating
  • Removed Modernizr since it wasn’t being used
  • Added pages to sitemap.xml
  • Added category: to rake new_post task
  • Minor typographic changes

Bug Fixes

  • Corrected various broken links in README and Theme Setup.

1.3.1

Enhancements

  • Cleaned up table of contents styling
  • Reworked top navigation to be a better experience on small screens. Nav items now display vertically when the menu button is tapped, revealing links with larger touch targets.

menu animation

1.2.0

Bug Fixes

  • Table weren’t filling the entire width of the content container. They now scale at 100%. Thanks @dhruvbhatia

Enhancements

  • Decreased spacing between Markdown footnotes
  • Removed dark background on footer
  • Removed UPPERCASE styling on post titles in the index listing

1.1.4

Bug Fixes

  • Fix top navigation bug issue (#10) for real this time. Remember to clear your floats kids.

1.1.3

Bug Fixes

  • Fix top navigation links that weren’t click able on small viewports (Issue #10).
  • Remove line wrap from top navigation links that may span multiple lines.

1.1.2

Enhancements

  • Added Grunt build script for compiling Less/JavaScript and optimizing image assets.
  • Added support for large image summary Twitter card.
  • Stylesheet adjustments

1.1.1

Bug Fixes

Enhancements

  • Added image attribution for post and page feature images.
  • Added 404 page.
  • Cleaned up various Less variables to better align with naming conventions used in other MM Jekyll themes.
  • Removed Chrome Frame references.
  • Added global CSS3 transitions to text and block elements.
  • Improved typography in a few places.

1.0.2

Enhancements

  • Google Analytics, Google Authorship, webmaster verifies, and Twitter card meta are now optional.

1.0.1

Updated: