Getting ready to blog
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Step 5: Customize Site Details
Great work! You can see your selected theme in action here. (It might take a few minutes or a browser refresh to see the changes.) Since this activity is all about creating a blog, we need to use a blog-ready theme.
Getting your page blog ready
When you selected the theme in your settings, GitHub added it to your _config.yml
file. The _config.yml
file is used by Jekyll to store certain preferences about your site (like your theme) and reusable content like your site title and github handle.
You can check out the _config.yml
in your Code tab.
⌨️ Activity: Modify the config file
Let's change the _config.yml
so it's a perfect fit for your new blog.
- On the Code tab, click the
_config.yml
file - Click the
✏️ pencil icon to enter edit mode and change thetheme:
to minima - Change the other configuration variables such as
title:
,author:
, anddescription:
to customize your site - Scroll the bottom and select the option to "Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request"
- Click Propose file change
- Add some content in the "Leave a comment" field
- Click Create pull request