{"id":4426,"date":"2018-03-05T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2018\/03\/05\/how-to-customize-your-jekyll-site\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T01:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T06:39:12","slug":"how-to-customize-your-jekyll-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/jekyll\/how-to-customize-your-jekyll-site\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Customize Your Jekyll Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your site is unique. So you will need a place where you can edit the Jekyll example content. (You&#8217;ll remember we <a href=\"\/support\/website\/jekyll\/how-to-create-a-jekyll-site\/\">created a Jekyll site<\/a> in the previous article.) Jekyll puts these options into a configuration file called <code>_config.yml<\/code>. Using this &#8220;config&#8221; file, this article will show you <strong>how to customize your Jekyll site<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"getting-the-file\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Where is the file located?<\/h2>\n<p>In previous articles, we talked about using your operating system&#8217;s folders. Since Jekyll is installed locally on your computer, you don&#8217;t need to use the command line to edit files. You will only need the command line when you want to <a href=\"\/support\/website\/jekyll\/how-to-create-a-jekyll-site\/#create-site\">run specific commands like the ones used to create the site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This means you can access the Jekyll configuration file by simply opening the folder on your computer in which the site is installed. There, you will see a file called <code>_config.yml<\/code>. Open this file to edit it.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"editing-the-file\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>How to Customize Your Jekyll Site<\/h2>\n<p>All of the information you will see in the config file can be used as variables in your site. This would be especially important if you&#8217;re designing your own theme. For every day uses, you should not have to change these very often or ever. Here are some of the main options you can edit:<\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-striped table-bordered\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Title (title)<\/th>\n<td>The official title of your site, will appear on the front page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Description (description)<\/th>\n<td>A few words about your site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Site Destination (destination)<\/th>\n<td>This option changes the directory where Jekyll will write the site files (the directory which you will later upload to your server)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Base URL (baseurl)<\/th>\n<td>Which URL the site should be served from (especially important if your site will be served from a subdomain)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Further (advanced) options are covered in more detail in the <a href=\"https:\/\/jekyllrb.com\/docs\/configuration\/\">official Jekyll configuration guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you run the <code>jekyll serve<\/code> command from your terminal, you will see the changes when you reload the site at the staging URL: https:\/\/127.0.0.1:4000\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your site is unique. 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