Themes | Jekyll - Static Site Generator | Tutorial 11

[@python-programming]

I am revamping my personal website and a few others. This tutorial series was amazingly helpful. Thanks!

[@magoxxii]

Thanks for all of this. Really clear

[@ravikiranp7532]

Hey! Can help me out with using a jekyll theme where you download a zip and use it. Doing a bundle install on it throws an error. Unable to figure it out..

[@TheBatags]

When typing bundle exec jekyll serve - i get this error -Could not find gem 'jekyll-theme-hacker x64-mingw32' in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile. not sure where to go from here (help) please

[@plotdenotes]

Is it possible to choose the default theme at the very beginning and make jekyll create files for the selected theme?

[@sagarjain4128]

after implementing the theme, why the page is kind of black, where is the other content ??

[@sagarjain4128]

hey mike, we managed to change the theme but after applying the theme where did all the things go ? I mean where is the post title , date etc. after changing the theme??

[@KulbhushanChand]

how you will access your post since no links are present after you change layout to default?

[@sagarjain4128]

hey, when I change the theme then site's content goes away. Do you have any idea why it is happening and also when I remove the theme then also content doesn't get back

[@streamingideas]

I recently installed Jekyll Dinky theme for my github page, Now how do I edit the pages as none of the changes are reflecting

[@magoxxii]

I cannot find a theme that use rhe orher layouts :/

[@yaboyalex5111]

What do you do if you have more then one layout?

[@ZhengQu]

The posts are all gone. Does anyone know how to get them back?

[@abdul.arif2000]

4:50 thx a lot bruv

[@kukaraca]

Awesome video. Thanks!

[@jespermalmberg5945]

Great explanation!

[@MicskiDK]

When editing the Gemfile for other gem-based themes, Jekyll fails on ridiculous version problems. Jekyll is now at version 4.0. All the gem-based themes depends on an older version 3.5 of Jekyll and does not recognize 4.0 as higher than 3.5.

[@FernandoHernandez-cw4ek]

Hey great video! One question, can we use a css framework with Jekyll?

[@AdityaSridhar]

Really good video. Very useful

[@beomsooshin5633]

what a great video!

[@thelostcreatives5060]

Yo. I made modifications on the minima theme and when I deployed it, all changes were gone. What do I need to do? Do I need to publish the theme I made? I need help.

[@TammyButcherPlus]

I followed along and installed a theme that had only a default layout. I changed the posts, pages, etc. to default as suggested. However, now when I go back to minima theme, I can't seem to get my posts back. I've tried everything I can think of (taking the new theme out of Gem file, changing the default layout in front matter back to post, etc.). Nothing seems to work. No big deal since I'm just learning how to do this but I'm curious what I'm doing wrong in case I do this in a 'real world' scenario? (The pages about, donations, etc. came back. I just can't get posts back)

[@TammyButcherPlus]

Actually, I just figured it out. I had placed the wrong variable value in the index.md file when I went back to update it. "layout: post" instead of what it should have been "layout: home". That fixed it. :)

[@Zerroth]

Nice one. Had the same issue.

[@jasminepengelly6937]

I had the same issue, too! Thanks for documenting.

[@RidhoFebriansa]

I'm using jekyll-theme-primer, it has post layouts but my Jekyll won't success on bundle exec jekyll serve because layout post not found and liquid exception. any help?

[@mattiarocca1798]

i have the same problem

[@brieflores322]

When I install the theme the command line says it was successful but when I input bundle exec jekyll serve it says could not locate gemfile or .bundle/directory. Help?

[@osmankrpat3738]

Not totally sure, but try this. include the following line in your Gemfile gem "" open your local jekyll blog directory in the terminal bundle install edit config.yml file theme: then bundle exec jekyll serve

[@wattheshet]

What happened to the post page? when adding a custom theme with layout default? theyre all gone. Ah yeah nevermind. Had to get the tailored theme to jekyllthemes.org

[@georgeliss4015]

awesome video! Could you please explain how to make external links in jekyll?

[@edwardfranklin4835]

I've tried to install a new theme through the command terminal but it doesn't work. The terminal produces the following error - which I think is saying the theme is not compatible with the version of Jekyll I've got installed, but I'm not sure, can somebody help me? See terminal output below $ bundle install Fetching gem metadata from rubygems.org/........ Fetching gem metadata from rubygems.org/. Resolving dependencies... Bundler could not find compatible versions for gem "jekyll": In snapshot (Gemfile.lock): jekyll (=4.0.0) In Gemfile: jekyll (~> 4.0.0) x64-mingw32 jekyll-theme-slate x64-mingw32 was resolved to 0.0.4, which depends on jekyll (~> 3.3) x64-mingw32

[@Maartz]

Delete Gemfile.lock Update your Gemfile to change the ~> 4.0.0 to ~> 3.3.0 Or use a theme compatible with Jekyll v4.

[@quangho8120]

Great video. Just a question not related to Jekyll: what's the story behind your channel's name? :D

[@utkarshdubey3396]

Ey dude what Atom theme do you use?

[@mariosilva2742]

Nice video, is it possible to host your own themes on your own server or are we forced to use rubygems/gemfury? Basically, how do you install themes from some other service. (maybe even directly from github/gitlab)

[@GiraffeAcademy]

Hey Mario, great question! Because Jekyll is built using ruby, installing themes using gems is the "official" way to do it. But there are thousands of Jekyll themes out there that you can install using something other than gems. In fact a lot of these themes are hosted on github. From what I've seen, a lot of these themes are actually just Jekyll project skeletons with layouts, css, images, etc. already included. Generally people will have them on github so all you have to do it fork/clone the repo and you can use the theme as the starting point for your project. Any most of the themes will come with installation instructions in case there are some additional dependencies (sass, node, etc.) Here's a list of some great websites for Jekyll themes! jekyllthemes.org/ themes.jekyllrc.org/ drjekyllthemes.github.io/

[@randomobsession9250]

Hey I'm using Atom as my code editor, I cannot find gemfile, please do help! Thanks.

[@andres21aj]

I have the same issue, did you solved it?

[@dxsp1d3r]

using jekyll on github where is the config file

[@r-i-ch]

1) Looking for themes on rubygems.org is a really time-consuming task. Sites like jekyllthemes.org/ make it much easier... 2) I feel like most of the themes I'm finding do *not* have simple gem theme installs. A good number of them require forking an existing GitHub repo, and modifying that. Perhaps worth covering in a future revision of this vid....

[@GiraffeAcademy]

Rich, thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated, I'll keep this in mind. Also just a note for anyone reading this comment thread. The reason the themes you're finding don't conform to the installation instructions in this video is because you're not getting them from the rubygems website. So they're technically not ruby gems. I think I might just do a video on using non-gem themes in the future, a lot of people are probably in this same situation! Good luck with Jekyll!

[@randomobsession9250]

Hey can't find gemfile, in my root directory, where am I gone wrong?

[@CyanidePierce90]

Great video series. I have a question about custom CSS and development in general. The old Jekyll was very easy to build a site with a downloaded theme. Is there a tutorial in the new Jekyll that shows how to best build a site like the old way. Using sass, custom layouts, includes etc. Something for people starting with jekyll new site --blank

[@dooyouevenliftbro8078]

Get it? "COMMIT to it" :D

[@ash3rr]

So, next question. What happens if you don't want to use one of these crappy themes, but want to craft one yourself

[@EfoneliSarah]

there is 'post' layout now tho... smiles

[@planeshaperman]

All the themes are incompatible with jekyll 4.0.0 CRAWLING IN MY SKIN

[@jaiar.324]

that might explain why I am having so many issues- it should be faster than making a site from scratch but all the dependencies and issues with incompatibilities are making this take longer than predicted