diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a3ad00c52756..5c5a91f8f726 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
*.gem
.bundle
Gemfile.lock
-vendor/bundle
+**/vendor/bundle
# Node.js and NPM
node_modules
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1d26527f4b6b..057629efb406 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
- Add missing Vietnamese translations [#2459](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2459)
- Fix Finnish ocalized UI text strings. [#2455](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2455)
- Clarify documentation that Lunr only searches documents in collections. [#2450](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2450)
+- Add guide on applying Front Matter defaults to jekyll-archives pages [#2466](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2466)
## [4.19.1](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/releases/tag/4.19.1)
diff --git a/docs/_docs/05-configuration.md b/docs/_docs/05-configuration.md
index 1ea73ed667fb..f6cbb0d3a564 100644
--- a/docs/_docs/05-configuration.md
+++ b/docs/_docs/05-configuration.md
@@ -1029,6 +1029,30 @@ jekyll-archives:
**Note:** The `archive-taxonomy` layout used by jekyll-archives is provided with the theme and can be found in the `_layouts` folder.
{: .notice--info}
+
+
+
Tip
+
+To apply [Front Matter defaults](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/front-matter-defaults/) to pages generated by the `jekyll-archives` plugin, you can specify a scope of an empty `path` and a `type` of either `tag` or `category`.
+
+For example, the following configuration enables author profile on tag archives and disables comments on category archives.
+
+```yaml
+defaults:
+ - scope:
+ path: ""
+ type: tag
+ values:
+ author_profile: true
+ - scope:
+ path: ""
+ type: category
+ values:
+ comments: false
+```
+
+
+
## HTML compression
If you care at all about performance (and really who doesn't) compressing the HTML files generated by Jekyll is a good thing to do.
diff --git a/docs/_docs/18-history.md b/docs/_docs/18-history.md
index 8419cf375f35..65a04bdc91d2 100644
--- a/docs/_docs/18-history.md
+++ b/docs/_docs/18-history.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ toc: false
- Add missing Vietnamese translations [#2459](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2459)
- Fix Finnish ocalized UI text strings. [#2455](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2455)
- Clarify documentation that Lunr only searches documents in collections. [#2450](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2450)
+- Add guide on applying Front Matter defaults to jekyll-archives pages [#2466](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2466)
## [4.19.1](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/releases/tag/4.19.1)