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Post layout isn't working #205

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PaulTuraew opened this issue Dec 2, 2014 · 6 comments
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Post layout isn't working #205

PaulTuraew opened this issue Dec 2, 2014 · 6 comments

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@PaulTuraew
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I followed all the directions on creating a .md post (e.g. 2011-12-31-new-years-eve-is-awesome.md), putting it in the _posts folder and included the YAML front matter and it still won't recognize the layout. I am currently running it on my local server.

When I look in my "site" folder and actually see the HTML code for the post, Jekyll is putting the front matter in the content

elements.

Any suggestions? Thank you!
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budparr commented Dec 2, 2014

Can you post a link to your repo?

@PaulTuraew
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Hi Bud,

https://github.com/PaulTuraew/turaew_io_jekyll_blog

Thanks in advance for the help!

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budparr commented Dec 2, 2014

Hi Paul,
So, a couple of things. You have empty lines at the top of your .md file, so Jekyll is not properly interpreting your front matter.

Also, have a look at your layout files. Your post layout doesn't have everything it needs to render a page, yet isn't referencing a default layout that has that either. You are calling a CSS file at the top of the page that isn't doing anything because it's not in the . And it looks like you're using your header.html include the way you should be using a default template (because you have your closing body tags in their too).

Here are some examples from the templates that Jekyll installs for you when you make a new instance:

This is the default layout that has a lot of the HTML for your page, but importantly a {{ content }} tag that allows other templates to inherit this template.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  {% include head.html %}
  <body>
    <div class="page-content">
        {{ content }}
    </div>
    {% include footer.html %}
  </body>
</html>

And this is a post template. Everything in this template gets inserted by Jekyll into the {{content}} tag in the default template. Note that at the top of this template, it references the default templatelayout: default

---
layout: default
---
<div class="post">
  <header class="post-header">
    <h1 class="post-title">{{ page.title }}</h1>
  </header>
  <article class="post-content">
    {{ content }}
  </article>
</div>

I'd suggest doing a fresh install of Jekyll, separate from your current site and having a look at the templates they use there. Hope that helps!

@PaulTuraew
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Hi Bud,

Thanks for the info, I looked into it, compared the templates and got the post layout to function correctly. Thank you again!

Paul

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budparr commented Dec 3, 2014

Glad to hear that!

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014, 11:28 AM Paul notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Bud,

Thanks for the info, I looked into it, compared the templates and got the
post layout to function correctly. Thank you again!

Paul

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ghost commented Nov 13, 2017

I had a similar problem, but found out the layout defined in YAML front matter had a wrong spelling!

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