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Reputation: 1215

Theme-Chooser in Github - to choose a jekyll-theme vanished

I am currently setting up a page and I wonder where the GitHub theme-chooser has gone. According to the following instruction, I want to go through the process:

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It seems that the theme-chooser has been removed. I want to use the jekyll-theme minimal (like caroly stransky does).

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Is this documentation still correct and is the information still relevant?

update: see here the image of how it looks here enter image description here

i want to add the line that carol did in the configuration; Christian it would be awesome if you can help here...

second update: hi there - since i cannot see the config.yml i think that i have to add the additional line to the so called raw file: see below the image

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can you confirm that is that all right!? love to hear from you

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update3: well i guess that i ll need to create a new file named "_config.yml" and with this i ll ned to set it's contents to this: ´theme: jekyll-theme-minimal`´ I guess that i have to do this

update4: well i ve created the file - and i guess this is done right - but wait. I have to edit this file correctly

theme: jekyll-theme-minimal

Well i need to add this correctly - not as comment but as content of the file... This is pretty important.

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 542

Answers (1)

Christian
Christian

Reputation: 5521

The blog post (workwithcarolyn.com/blog/digital-cv-guide) is from 2020. The displayed images are outdated. In a test repo I couldn't find the option to select a theme anymore. The new pages setup page (https://github.com/YOURUSER/REPOSITORY/settings/pages) just contains a link to the docs:

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The link to the docs explains how to set a theme for your site. Under point 5 the page says:

Add a new line to the file for the theme name.

To use a supported theme, type theme: THEME-NAME, replacing THEME-NAME with the name of the theme as shown in the README of the theme's repository. For a list of supported themes, see "Supported themes" on the GitHub Pages site.

The supported themes page is linking to the repository of each theme.

Some other themes are remote themes, e.g. Minimal. The repository explains how to add the theme:

To use the Minimal theme:
Add the following to your site's _config.yml:

remote_theme: pages-themes/[email protected]  
plugins:  
  - jekyll-remote-theme

You can have a look at https://github.com/cadamini/test/blob/main/_config.yml and the resulting page at https://cadamini.github.io/test/

Upvotes: 1

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