Adding a custom homepage?

[CodeRunner00]

Hi, Carlos! Awesome portfolio/blog theme. I am wondering how you were able to add all of the information about your Javascript skills and projects to the home page using this theme? When I add an index.html file to the source folder of my blog nothing is displayed. Thank you, Eric

[carlos-algms]

Hi Eric, thanks for using my theme, I'm glad you liked it.

Try to add this as the first lines of you index.html :

---
layout: index
title:
comments: false
---

Take a look at my files structure:

[carlos-algms]

And please, let me know if it worked and share your site URL.

[CodeRunner00]

Thanks for the detailed response.

I did add the layout, title, and comments properties before. I tried changing the layout property to index.ejs but that did not fix it. I also had the index.html file in the source directory under my blog's root directory.

I have some familiarity with ejs and found that when I added the html right onto index.ejs in the materialize theme's source directory it displayed on the screen. Do you have a controller that displays the content of the layout index on the page? Thank you, Eric

[carlos-algms]

@CodeRunner00, I double checked my configs and the only thing that makes sense is add this to your
_config.yml :

theme: materialize
exclude_generators:
- index

[carlos-algms]

Actually, what is happening for you ? Because there is no controllers at all. Everything is static and the files can be even .html or .md

As you can see here:
https://github.com/carlos-algms/carlos-algms.github.io/tree/source/source

Hexo will handle the .ejs files, those files exists on the theme folder because Hexe needs to process it, you should not change files under themes forlder.

The layout property should be index without extension.

[CodeRunner00]

Thank you.

I resolved this issue with

npm remove hexo-generator-index

[carlos-algms]

Good to know!!!!
Please, Share your site I really want to see what you developed!!

[CodeRunner00]

Sure thing! I will once I've got everything up and running.

[CodeRunner00]

Here is my blog. Still have a bit to go but it's up and running!
https://coderunner00.github.io/

[carlos-algms]

Congrats.

O saw that your code blocks are not getting highlighted, try to write ` javascript
(spaces to avoid github process it)

[carlos-algms]

failed miserably, :)

use 3 backticks then write javascript, should work