Why is my github pages not working with the template?

[sylhare]

Allo,

So I create this issue to tackle the possible issues / questions you might have with working with a template on github page.
Either because you have made some customisation, or there's something that needs to be configured.

• Jekyll troubleshoot guide.

[sylhare]

So here are the possible reason

1. You need to configure the base url or site url in _config.yml as mentionned in the readme
2. You are using a template that require a plugin not accepted by github (accepted plugins)
   • On local in your Gemfile try to use gem 'github-pages' and see if you get an error
3. You might receive a build error message on your mail account, you can reply for more information or start troubleshooting with github's documentation.

If your github page is still not working, you can ask your question here.

[Ian-Goode]

I am having some problems trying to get github-pages to properly process the website, at the moment the gh-pages website looks like just HTML crap because its not being created correctly. (this was happening since I forked your theme)
I can build the website properly locally by using bundle exec jekyll serve and do some local edits, but I am unable to successfully run jekyll serve without any errors involving the versions.
Do you know how to solve this issue?

[sylhare]

Allo,

I think it is option 1 for you ;
You need to update the _config.yml in the master branch of your personal repository (ian-goode.github.io) with which the github page will be generate.

Try with that site configuration

# SITE CONFIGURATION
baseurl: ""
url: "https://ian-goode.github.io"

[Ian-Goode]

That was completely my bad... I had thought I committed my local changes to github.

My site is looking amazing! Thanks for your awesome and easily modifiable theme :)

[frigaut]

Hi Sylhare,

First of, a big thank you for the great work. Difficult to make a simpler installation (well mostly thanks to Jekyll), and the theme is really super nice and has most features I wanted. So thanks for making it available.

One short question: I don't remember how to change the text that appears in the browser tab (the one with the favicon that says "Simplistic, responsive jekyll based open source theme"?

Cheers & Congrats,
Francois

[sylhare]

Hi @frigaut,

Well that text is generated by the browser, it does that on https://sylhare.github.io/Type-on-Strap/ because it is the site generated from the repo.

However locally it is displaying at http://localhost:4000/Type-on-Strap/ the site address: http://localhost:4000/Type-on-Strap/.

Did you try it on your side and still seeing the Simplistic, responsive jekyll based open source theme text? As of now it is not yet customizable.

[sylhare]

Link back https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Pages/Pages-theme-not-work/m-p/43141/highlight/false#M2483
If you have any issue with the theme not solved here, or in another already closed issue, feel free to ask 😉

[buenourbano]

Hi,

I have an issue with the gallery page on my organizations web (https://thefluxions.github.io/gallery). It shows the pics I added to the pexels folder, but I deleted your pics from the folder and still shows. I checked gallery.md file and gallery.html file and still couldn't find the reason why happens.

By the way, it's a great and flexible design.

Thanks so much in advance :)

[sylhare]

Hi @buenourbano I have created #211 for your issue, I'll take a look at it, thanks for reporting ;)

[sylvietht]

Hi,

Thanks so much for this great and easy-to-use theme. I'm in the process of redoing my organization's website (just building locally at the moment) and am trying to get the blog feed to live on a different page (/blog) and have a static homepage.

I tried creating a new layout called blog, which is a copy of the existing home layout. Then I removed {% include blog.html %} from the home layout. Then I created a page in pages called blog.html with the blog layout. I've tried a few different variations of this, and in every case it seems like the blog feed isn't able to generate in any file other than index.html. Any insights as to what is needed in order to move the blog feed away from the homepage?

Thanks so much!

[sylhare]

Hey @sylvietht is your use case similar to #104 "How to create page in navbar with link to blog post overview?" ?

[sylvietht]

Thanks for the quick response @sylhare - yes, my use case is similar to that, except I'd like to keep the blog feed out of index.html altogether, so I suspect the fix isn't quite as simple as it was in #104.

I thought it might be something with the paginator. Is there an easy way to change the url that the paginator uses? I'm looking at it now and don't see it, but if you have any ideas...

Let me know if you'd like to see any of my code. Thanks so much for your help!

[sylhare]

Yes I think it is an issue with paginator, sverrirs/jekyll-paginate-v2#21 seems to talk about it, but I don't remember what you need to modify in your config. I'll go take a look and create a new issue for this specific use case (#212).

I'll get back to you if I find anything 😉

[sylvietht]

Awesome, thanks so much for that link - I'll do some reading too.