jekyll website not updating on github pages

Question

I recently played around with the Jekyll/Poole/Lanyon theme for a new blog. At first, I linked my domain jonathancharleslee.com to my github pages site at jonathancharleslee.github.io

When I update files locally, I can update site features and posts - however, when I push to github it won't update on jonathancharleslee.github.io

Any help is much appreciated.

Just a note, you can automate the process by using Travis: http://wouterj.nl/2015/02/using-travis-to-build-your-sculpin-blog/ (applies both to Sculpin and Jekyll) — Tomas Votruba, Jul 19 '15 at 08:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '15 at 12:57

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You're on a user/organisation repository (username.github.io). This type of repository needs you to push in master branch, not in gh-pages.

See Github Pages doc

answered Jul 19 '15 at 12:57

David Jacquel

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '17 at 19:29

You should be working and making all your changes on the development branch, then pushing ONLY your built files to the master branch, which is what Github Pages will publish.

There's step-by-step instructions on how to do this in this posting: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44296933/7669275

jekyll website not updating on github pages

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