jekyll-theme-chirpy VS minima

"Using the Chirpy theme for Jekyll."

Basically I'm trying to setup a github pages website using Chirpy's Theme as a starting point. I seem to have the same problem as reported in this stackoverflow post where I can't seem to be able to save the gh-pages as the deploy branch. However, the issue reported in stackoverflow was from before 2020 when github starting allowing projects to use different branches as sources (at the time the main branch was still called master).

If you wanted it to be EXACTLY like TechnoTim's docs site, you could use Jekyll with Chirpy theme (I viewed the source to figure out how it was made).

I am new to jekyll and I am trying to create a website using the chirpy theme. I am able to get it to run perfectly locally but when I deploy it, all I see is --- layout: home # Index page ---

I made a simple personal website using this Jekyll theme, generated from this template, and deployed in it using GitHub Pages. This repo was not generated from a fork.

Thanks! Here's the theme.

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.