Getting ready to blog

[github-learning-lab]

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.

1. On the Code tab, click the _config.yml file
2. Click the ✏️ pencil icon to enter edit mode and change the theme: to minima
3. Change the other configuration variables such as title:, author:, and description: to customize your site
4. Scroll the bottom and select the option to "Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request"
5. Click Propose file change
6. Add some content in the "Leave a comment" field
7. Click Create pull request

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Look for my next response in your pull request