Remove "by [username]" in a GitHub Pages document.title

Question

I have a GitHub Pages site, and I don't want to use the raw html to develop the site yet because non developers on the team will be pushing.

The problem is that the document.title contains "by [username]" at the end. I want to remove that and just make it be the beginning text.

I already tried title: [custom title] in Jekyll and it still has the organization name at the end.

I am using the Midnight theme.

Thanks!

Hm, try blanking the `title_suffix` like so: `title_suffix: ""` — Adaline Simonian, Jul 18 '17 at 16:00
I might be thinking of an option for the paginate plugin for jekyll. My bad. — Adaline Simonian, Jul 18 '17 at 16:11
Or if you aren't using any theme, post the layouts files content — marcanuy, Jul 18 '17 at 16:45
Yes, at https://github.com/thebclickteam/thebclickteam.github.io — Cameron, Jul 18 '17 at 21:54
I'm a little confused. The repo you posted doesn't seem to match the content of your site. Or more specifically, the index of the site matches the readme in your repo, not the index in your repo. Have you tried disabling the theme? Are you sure your site contains the latest changes in your repo? — Kevin Workman, Jul 18 '17 at 23:50
Jekyll builds the readme file into an index.html themed page. So after the website is completely finalized, and not needing to be edited all the time, I will use actual the actual html generated from the site instead of the readme. — Cameron, Jul 19 '17 at 00:12

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '17 at 12:20

As based in comments, you are using the jekyll-midnight-theme, copy the default layout file of the jekyll-theme-midnight repo into _layouts directory in your Jekyll website.

Create the /_layouts directory
Copy https://github.com/pages-themes/midnight/blob/master/_layouts/default.html into /_layouts

Now edit /_layouts/default.html and adjust the <title> HTML tag, in this case removing the "by " part, so this:

 <title>{{ site.title | default: site.github.repository_name }} by {{ site.github.owner_name }}</title>

replace it with:

  <title>{{ site.title | default: site.github.repository_name }}</title>

Now your website won't include the "by [organization name]" at the end.

Thanks! Works perfectly! Now I can also clean up some of the code in the layout html file that I don't want! — Cameron, Jul 19 '17 at 19:15

Remove "by [username]" in a GitHub Pages document.title

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