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title: Change Theme of Jekyll Blog Site
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tags: blogs, jekyll
title: Change Theme of Jekyll Blog Site
description: Change Theme of Jekyll Blog Site
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author: Rupesh Tiwari
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# Change Theme of Jekyll Blog Site
Learn how to change your jekyll blog site theme.

Check your themes here : https://rubygems.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=jekyll-theme


## Use Hacker Theme

I will use https://rubygems.org/gems/jekyll-theme-hacker

## Add Hacker theme to Gem 

![](https://i.imgur.com/I3yDS51.png)


Run `bundle install`  To install Hacker Theme.

## Update _config.yml

![](https://i.imgur.com/bbRuyfG.png)

```yaml=
# Build settings
theme: jekyll-theme-hacker
```


## Restart server
Run 
`bundle exec jekyll serve`


![](https://i.imgur.com/phIBOcH.png)


## Layout of the Hacker Theme

Minima Theme had post, page layout. 

Hacker Theme only support `post` and `default`

Go to each post and change the layout to default


![](https://i.imgur.com/hJ4qzRV.png)

So go to index.md and change the layout to `default`

![](https://i.imgur.com/W9O0OpL.png)


## Build your site and check theme updated

Run
`jekyll update`

![](https://i.imgur.com/gATaE3X.jpg)




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