Help installing jekyll theme on github pages

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Hi,

This will probably end up being something really simple but i have been trying to just copy a repository called basically basic and displaying what they display on github pages.

here is the theme i am trying to use.

and here is what it is supposed to look like

(due to new user limitations i cannot post this url but it is easily found from the project page)

Finally here is my copy of the project

When i run this project locally (using bundle exec jekyll serve) the theme works perfectly. Finally I set the entry point for the theme to be /docs

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Sorry for such a simple question but i have been on this for like hours now and have no idea why it wont work.

Sincerely

Mark

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Don’t copy the repo. You’ll want to follow these instructions to install the theme as a remote_theme, which is compatible with GitHub Pages.

  1. Replace gem "jekyll" with:

    gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins

  2. Run bundle update and verify that all gems install properly.

  3. Add remote_theme: "mmistakes/jekyll-theme-basically-basic" to your
    _config.yml file. Remove any other theme: or remote_theme: entries.

Looks like by you copying the theme’s repo you kept all of it’s configurations which is why most of the links and styling are broken. I wouldn’t be surprised if baseurl: is improperly set as well which tends to break paths to CSS/JS.

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