chirpytestandmore VS minima

However, after doing this I cloned the repo and tried to make a couple sample posts and ran into some trouble related to github actions. I spent some time trying to figure out the problem but eventually gave up and fell back on the technique described here to push directly to gh-pages. That worked as expected .

I started with Jekyll's default, Minima[1], to get something working right away. But then i tweaked lots of stuff, copying things i liked from other blogs[2], so it no longer resembles that default look.

[1]: https://jekyll.github.io/minima/

you could make a _layouts directory in your project root (if you don't have one already) and copy over the minima layouts from the repo to adjust anything you need. Link: https://github.com/jekyll/minima/tree/master/_layouts

If you prefer to use Markdown, jekyll's default theme (example) for newly scaffolded websites is also quite clean.

( content originally cloned from https://github.com/jekyll/minima )

After that, we need to display the data. Jekyll uses a theme system. By default, the used theme is minima. The theme's files are not generated in the Jekyll projects, but you can override every theme's template by creating a file with the same name in the _layouts folder.

Download the latest version of social.html. You'll find it here

So before doing anything, we need to look at our minima theme repository. Please make sure you look at the branch of your current version. In my case, it is the 2.5 one that is installed (you can have this info in the Gemfile file), so I am looking at the 2.5-stable branch.