Jekyll themes are the native way to use templates and styles to customize a Jekyll site presentation.
Questions tagged [jekyll-theme]
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Modifying an existing Jekyll theme to have static homepage
I'm making a site using this theme: Github repo; theme demo.
The theme is built with the blog feed on the homepage (index.html). What I would like to do instead is:
make a static homepage (i.e. no blog feed on the homepage), and
have the blog…

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Github Pages Unsupported Jekyll Theme
I've been trying to use a Jekyll theme from bootstrap called jekyll-theme-clean-blog, and everytime I publish it on Github I receive an email saying, "You are attempting to use a Jekyll theme, "jekyll-theme-clean-blog", which is not supported by…

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Simplest way to track ip address of visitors of jekyll website
I am using this code for the website:https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio. Since Google Analytics does not allow IP addresses of visitors to be tracked, can someone please let me know of any good alternate solution to track IP address and…

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Why are site variables in a Jekyll remote_theme's `_config` file not accessible?
According to this, "Jekyll will read-in a _config.yml at the root of the theme-gem and merge its data into the site’s existing configuration data." But I've created a theme with a config that looks like this:
And I'm referencing the variables like…

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Jekyll definition for site or page variables?
I'm new to Jekyll(Indeed I'm not a front-end developer). In many situations, when using Jekyll I should use site.pages or page.title ect.
In official doc, there are meanings about those variables. However, after reading I'm still…

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How do you change page order in the Jekyll's Minima theme?
I am a completely new Jekyll user, so I appreciate that this information may be elsewhere but I cannot seem to figure it out. I have just built a new Jekyll site and am using the the default Minima theme.
I would like to change the default page…

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'for' tag was never closed / if elsif else in liquid logic to include a page?
My Jekyll version is 3.8.6.
If I have too many elseif I get a for logic error where no for loop was written. If I remove one elseif, it works.
This does not work:
{% if page.jsontype == "page" %}
{% include pageJSONLD.html %}
{% elsif…

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Build Warning: Layout 'XXX-layout' requested in index.md does not exist in Jekyll?
I have created a theme of my own using Jekyll named 'north' which I have created by myself.
After creating the theme I got a gem file as 'north-0.1.0.gem' and gemspec file as 'north.gemspec'.
I took both of these file and paste inside a folder named…

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How to make maximum utilization of the screen space in my web page generated from Jekyll?
I've managed to dowload and setup Jekyll with minima theme to log my daily task updates in my blog. Currently it looks like below
I wanted to make the editable content full screen, so that I have more space in the page for writing really long blog…

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Jekyll custom theme (running locally)
I'm new to Jekyll and I am trying to get a custom theme up and running. Here's is what I've done so far:
Created my Jekyll site. CD to the directory I wanted to install it and ran
bundle exec jekyll serve
These files were created and I was able…

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jekyll serve ERROR `/sw.js' not found
I get the following error after using jekyll serve
[2018-07-06 09:42:43] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=7146 port=4000
Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.
[2018-07-06 09:43:03] DEBUG accept: 127.0.0.1:45172
[2018-07-06 09:43:03] DEBUG…

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Customize CSS styling in a Jekyll template
I'm using Jekyll for the first time to build a portfolio site. I had no trouble with customizing the HTML but when I follow instructions on customizing the CSS, the changes I make are not applied after I do bundle exec jekyll serve. Here's what I've…

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Jekyll avatar image size adjustment in yml config file
I have installed a Jekyll based website which has a config file _config.yml. The file contains following section where avatar image is path is specified.
author:
name : "name of the author"
avatar : "/assets/images/avatar_logo.jpg"
I want to…

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Where to find code that generates ID names in the HTML pages in a GitHub page Jekyll theme
I see that the markdown headings have the headings as ID with spaces replaced with dashes in the generated HTML files.
I want to tinker with the code that is responsible for this so I can change the rules and replace some characters with some other…

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Jekyll - multiple subsites, managing shared content?
I have a github organization site, plus subsites for several distinct projects within that organization. These nest as main.org (which has general organizational content), main.org/SUB1 (content for project 1), main.org/SUB2, etc. These sites shared…

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