Custom Layouts on Jekyll

After you have sat up your website, you might seem to see a weird picture like this:

This is very annoying and could affect the effectivity of your site, it also affects your SEO, or search engine performance!

Solution!!!

First go to https://github.com/orgs/pages-themes/repositories and click the respository with your theme name on it. Put the browser beside.

Then, on your local repository, in the root directory, create a folder called _layouts.

Now in you browser, using cayman as an example, click the _layouts as seen:

Now enter the default.html file and enter a page like this:

Now Copy the whole thing into your local repository and save.

** Important: Now delete any line with words like “Skip” or “generated” or “credits”**

Save, commit and push to remote, and you are done! You can even use this to change footnotes if you can understand HTML!

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