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Sorry for the very basic question, I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to understand this. I have applied a Jekyll theme to my page and that works great, however, when I added a https://github.com/huntops-blue/huntops-blue.github.io Steps tried so far:
Again, I feel like I’m following the documentation, so I think it’s got to be something obnoxiously simple. The only other variable is that the site is being served up as another domain (https://huntops.blue) vs. [page].github.io, but that’s all working with the theme for |
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Circling back on this, I got it. I’m not sure exactly what the issue was, but I assume that the “apply theme” section of Github provides a pretty basic Jekyll theme without all the bells and whistles, which I guess _posts requires? So what I did was clone the theme directly from their Github repo, https://github.com/pages-themes/midnight, in my case and then ran the instructions to serve it up locally on my system:
From there, I just slowly replaced things from my site where they should go - index.md, _config.yml, created _posts directories, added images directories, replicated the Front Matter that they had…mainly just left everything alone that wasn’t specific to my content. I think the main issue was the inclusion of _sass, script, Gemfile, and Gemfile.lock. Lots of trial and error, but I got there. Having those there seem to do whatever magic they do and it worked out for me. |
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Circling back on this, I got it.
I’m not sure exactly what the issue was, but I assume that the “apply theme” section of Github provides a pretty basic Jekyll theme without all the bells and whistles, which I guess _posts requires?
So what I did was clone the theme directly from their Github repo, https://github.com/pages-themes/midnight, in my case and then ran the instructions to serve it up locally on my system: