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Typically you’ll use jekyll serve while developing locally and jekyll build when you need to generate the site for production. For a full list of options and their argument, see Build …

Some of these techniques might even guide you through a supporting tool, script, service, or other hack used with your Jekyll site. Feel free to include tutorials involving external services with …

Jekyll has an extensive theme system that allows you to leverage community-maintained templates and styles to customize your site’s presentation. Jekyll themes specify plugins and …

Jekyll is a static site generator. It takes text written in your favorite markup language and uses layouts to create a static website. You can tweak the site’s look and feel, URLs, the data …

While macOS comes preinstalled with Ruby, we don’t recommend using that version to install Jekyll. This external article goes over the various reasons why you shouldn’t use the system …

Jekyll’s growing community produces wide variety of themes, plugins, tutorials and other resources that can be helpful. Below is a collection of links to some of the most popular Jekyll …

The easiest way to install Ruby and Jekyll is by using the RubyInstaller for Windows. RubyInstaller is a self-contained Windows-based installer that includes the Ruby language, an …

This tutorial takes you from having some front-end web development experience to building your first Jekyll site from scratch without relying on the default gem-based theme.