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Page not showing the theme #22033

Answered by birdcar
big616 asked this question in General
Mar 31, 2018 · 10 comments · 1 reply
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Hi @big616!

No need to apologize for the “noob question”, we’ve all been there at some point.

The reason you’re not seeing your theme show up is because of the way that Jekyll handles HTML files. Since you’re trying to get your theme to apply to your index.html file, you’ll need to tell Jekyll explicitly what theme to use for your HTML file.

To do this, delete everything from your HTML file except what’s between the \<body> tags in your repository. Your theme will take care of the other HTML, so you just need to worry about the content of the page, which will always be in the \<body\> of your theme.

Once you’ve done that, at the very top of your index.html file, you’ll need to add some Je…

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