Questions tagged [octopress]

Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages.

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Deploying CSS with Jekyll and Octopress

I am setting up an Octopress blog right now, and there's one thing I'm having some trouble with. I can post on the blog after I've added a Markdown-file in the _posts folder like this: rake generate rake deploy And it works fine with posts, but…
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Octopress capitalization in new posts

Today i updated my Octopress blog and when i run: rake new_post["This is a test of title"] It creates my markdown file in source/_post/2013-02-18-this-is-a-test-of-title.markdown, then i run: rake generate and rake preview And the post now have…
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Styling octopress image layout (eg images all in a row)

Any tips on styling image layout with the {%img ... %} plugin? I'm ok with left and right but I'd really like to have all images in a row vertically for example and can't quiet figure out how to style things. I thought perhaps add a
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Custom landing page with Octopress

I've setup Octopress and want to use totally custom styling basically throwing out most of the standard styling that applies to the rest of the site. I do want to keep reference to all responsive goodness though that is baked in. What's the best way…
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Filtering posts by tag

I have a new Jekyll/Octopress site. I made some customizations: I added a category_list_tag.rb file (from Dan Watson) to the plugins folder to create categories, and I then duplicated the category_generator.rb and the category_list_tag.rb to create…
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How to make syntax highlighting work in octopress

This is really getting frustrating. I don't know what's wrong with my markdown files as it compiled to html before without any problems but now its giving me this error whenever I run rake generate. Now I mainly use trial and error for every file(30…
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Octopress, github pages, CNAME domain and google website search

My blog was successfully transferred to octopress and github-pages. My problem though is that website's search uses google search but the result of 'search' as you can see, are pointing to the old (wordpress) links. Now these links have change…
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How to push changes for an Octopress blog on GitHub?

I've gone through the Octopress setup and deploy instructions, and I have Octopress running on Github: http://wmerydith.github.com My repo is set to the default branch of Master. I now want to push changes to the config file, like changing the…
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Is Octopress suitable for non-pure-blog site?

I want create a website for my studio and found the Octopress + Github is attractive. Below is the structure draft of the site. index |-games |-blog |-.... Everything seldom change except the blog. The problem is I didn't fount any non-pure-blog…
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Syntax highlighting in octopress

What do I need to do to make syntax highlighting work on octopress? Here's what I currently have: ``` ruby class Fixnum def prime? ('1' * self) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ end end ``` There's no whitespace on the left side of the backtick…
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Re-direct URL to Add Trailing Slash in Sinatra

Have my app up on Heroku. Using rack-canonical-host to handle re-directs from myapp.heroku.com to the canonical domain. My domain registrar handles re-directs from the root domain. I'm using Octopress (a Jekyll-based framework; Sinatra runs…
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extend jekyll / octopress with db?

I've been looking to move my wp blog to octopress (based on jekyll). I'd like to have the option to add a member login/registration system to the site as well as other dynamic functionality later down the line, but I like the idea of having my…
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Video Tag plugin for Octopress denies access

The documentation provides the following syntax: {% video url/to/video [width height] [url/to/poster] %} I created /source/videos/test.mp4 and made a call to it like this: {% video /videos/test.mp4 %} I get the videoplayer to appear loaded on the…
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An error occurred while installing jekyll-sitemap (0.11.0)

I try to build an Octopress in my PC, but when I executed bundle install in git bash. The results showed Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument - D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-sitemap-0.11.0/spec/fixtures/_posts/2016-04-01-ih I don't know…
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how do I install a theme using Jekyll 3.1 and octopress plugins?

I am still using the default Octopress 3 theme, but would like to use Jekyll themes The instructions online, though, suggest that I fork a theme, change the _config file, and then add my content. It seems like, since the themes should just be sass…
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