如何将Github页面上的现有内容转换为新的Jekyll主题？

Question

Hoping someone out there can help me, I have scoured the boards already. I'm not a total noob, but I'm just slightly higher than that.

I set up a Github static page 2 years back. Just a simple page, tweaked the CSS a bit from the existing templates, added an image, text and links. Got the site to work, even figured out how to point it to a custom URL.

Now, I'd like to redesign the site and use a Jekyll theme.

All the tutorials I've found talk about how to start this from scratch. How do I take the site I've already created and apply a Jekyll theme to it?

I've also read that I should be keeping the Jekyll theme in master and pulling content from gh-pages. Master is the live source of my content, and if I apply Jekyll to master, will it affect the look of my live site? I don't want that, I want to be able to work locally and make changes.

Any insight on how to accomplish this redesign is appreciated. Thank you!

Answer 1

The content for Jekyll sites is organised into 'posts' and 'pages' . Which can be in html or markdown format. Jekyll prescribes this directory structure .

If your github-pages sites is a User Page it can only be published from master (and overwriting it with a jekyll theme would therefore change your live page assuming the new site builds properly).

Otherwise you set the publishing branch in the repo settings.

To work with jekyll locally just follow these instructions . It includes the ability to run a local-only server, so that you can "preview your local Jekyll site in your web browser at http://localhost:4000 ."