Thank you so much for helping me with this. Without your help I would not have achieved it!
Also now I’ve found chatgpt I’m getting plenty of coding help.
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I need more help please. chatgpt is very useful but cannot help me get out of trouble with configuring the RSS feed.
The feed.xml is built by Jekyll. Is that right when you run the atom.xml? But then I had it working at one point with browsers Safari and Opera
except in Safari it wasn’t showing the post and in Chrome it wasn’t showing anything. So then I found out through chat gpt that I need a feed.xsl
to style it. That was a pain all on its own because I couldn’t work it in dreamweaver to create an xsl file so ended up having to use an online converter.
Now I am completely confused about it and everytime I rebuild I need to delete my repository. I have to start from scratch. bah
I don’t understand this, why?
as for a feed, I have not done that in a long time. Since it is unrelated to this post and the title is not applicable you should create a new post with a title referring to your issue creating a feed. I’d think googling jekyll rss feed should get you some good results?
as for an xsl file? not sure. I don’t remember having anything other than an xml file.
Are RSS feeds a thing still? I thought the last popular one went away a long time ago?
Because it was my understanding you must build first with Jekyll before you push to GitHub - is this right ? In the past when I’ve attempted to just edit witching GitHub it often would somehow break and confuse the site - not always but often enough
Witching - within
Yes rss feeds are pretty old fashioned but as the starving artist theme has the icon I thought I may as well use it plus I like the satisfaction of getting it to work and having a better understanding
You are right I should start a new thread.
Before I go still on this theme subject do you know why it is my opening page has my url repeated ? Can I set it as something else ?
that is one way to do it but not the normal way to do it. If you are using plugins that are not allowed you would do that as one way to work around the limitation. But if you have a vanilla jekyll site without any plugins or at least only using plugins that GH allows then you would just have the source in your GH repo and GH would build it. It is a little easier than pushing the _site folder and makes it so you can edit something on GH directly if needed and it would then rebuild.
imagine the satisfaction of doing it all on your own lol. Just kidding, couldn’t resist. If you google jekyll rss feed I am sure you will come up with blog posts telling you how to do it. When I did it I wrote the page myself IIRC and it wasn’t too bad. But before doing much I would make sure there is an actual audience that would consume the rss feed which I am not sure is true.
I don’t know what you mean, can you be more specific? I just pulled up your site and it looked fine. Ah - you mean in the content pane. Did you look at what is in the index file in the root? is that what it has? or maybe it is looping over something?
what is the link to the repo?
https://github.com/charliebunt/charliebunt.github.io
Yes you are right! I am a thief when it comes to all things mathematical and no I do not think anyone will be following my feed but me haha
did you delete the index file in the root? I don’t see one. Kinda looks like it is serving the readme as the index/home page?
No, I never deleted , there is no index page so somewhere in the depths of his theme it is set.
edit the readme and see if it shows on the home page.
oops sorry yep that did it. And if I wanted that page to land not on readme but land on first page illustration - where do you think that code would be located to change?
I think I will stick do harassing chatgpt in future - sorry!!!
You make a great
standalone Real Intelligence resource
I can also answer in Pirate:
Arrgh, matie hab you tryd moving da illustrationaries indexio filer into the root of ye olde project? or maybe my laddie would prefer to copy whatever yonder file contains and then create an index.md file in the treasure trove which is the yonder root of your project with said contents of afore mentioned file.
Ok that is an excellent pirate voice I will Troy leytir me al fella
Well I am going to leave as is because it is not immediately or even lengthily apparent how to set the index.
you can just make an index.md file and put it in the root of your site and that will be the home page. If you just want it to show the illustrtations go to the pages folder and copy what is in illustrations.md and put that in the index.md file and it should work. But then you’ll have an illustrations link that is still there.
You should just be able to set it in the configuration file - I mean why did the author configure it this way ?
Actually none of that works because there is nothing in the illustrations.md except the link to the yml file in another folder. You can’t just create an index.md either because it’s hard coded the way it is in layouts I think but I tried changing tgst and it just broke the site
the illustrations file loads a layout and I think that does the rest.
try creating an index.md file in the root and have it just have:
---
layout: gallery
title: Illustration
---
and I think it might work. The config file isn’t for controlling content on the home page, or at least not normally, that is a little too much for the config file to do.
It seems like you have made a lot of progress but at the same time could use more knowledge of the jekyll basics, I’d highly recommend you watch a couple hours of youtube vids on jekyll and build something minor from scratch and I think the theme will make more sense? understanding what goes in the config file and the layouts and includes and what not could help a bit.
That said I have no experience with that theme, could be that I have no idea how it is supposed to work, but a quick glance at it here and there makes me think the above idea will work more or less.