Question: How to change from the Minima theme to Reverie?

[urig]

Hi,

I hope this is the right place to ask this.

I have an existing GitHub Pages blog that uses the default Minima theme for Jekyll. I tried changing to Reverie by installing the gem and changing the theme in _config.yml but the result looks quite bad. One issue is that /assets/main/style.css is missing but having fixed that, things still don't look well.

My question is - Is it possible to change from Minima to Reverie and not have to install Reverie fresh? Might there be instructions for how to do this online somewhere?

Thanks,
urig

[manaspz]

I hope you have your issue solved by now, but pulling that off would be very complicated.
Why ?

• Jekyll versions have changed a lot and, afaik minima being the default theme for Jekyll will ideally bundle all required gems ,the same would not stand true for reverie.
• Even if you start replacing files in order to import reverie, there will be collisions in style sheets and a lot of cached files.

The best solution ?

• The best way is to start afresh, since you can simply import all your blog posts and pages and then configure minor changes.