# Beautiful Jekyll

Jekyll theme for personal websites, blogs and project websites, set up by forking a repository on GitHub or by adding a Ruby gem.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/beautiful-jekyll/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://beautifuljekyll.com
- repository: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll
- docs: https://beautifuljekyll.com/getstarted/
- pricing: https://beautifuljekyll.com/plans/
- x: https://twitter.com/daattali
- forum: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/discussions

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Dean Attali
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: unknown
- language: unknown
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: jekyll

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: GitHub fork with GitHub Pages, or the beautiful-jekyll-theme Ruby gem

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 6
- latestReleaseDate: 2023-06-08

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5832
- packagistDownloads: unknown
- npmWeeklyDownloads: unknown
- contributors: 86
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 118
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://beautifuljekyll.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/daattali/beautiful-jekyll (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://beautifuljekyll.com/getstarted/ (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- basedOn: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://beautifuljekyll.com/getstarted/ (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://beautifuljekyll.com/getstarted/ (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/beautiful-jekyll-theme.json (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/daattali/beautiful-jekyll (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/daattali/beautiful-jekyll/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/beautiful-jekyll-theme (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Beautiful Jekyll is a Jekyll theme for personal websites, blogs and project websites. It is built on top of Jekyll, and the homepage says it is powered by GitHub Pages and Jekyll. The getting-started page gives two routes: forking the repository on GitHub, where GitHub Pages builds the site, or adding the beautiful-jekyll-theme Ruby gem to a Jekyll project. The README says more than 50,000 people use the theme.

## Worth knowing

The README says no support is given for the Ruby gem route. Some extras are sold as sponsor plans on the project's plans page.

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