New theme chooser for GitHub Pages
You can now build a GitHub Pages website with a Jekyll theme in just a few clicks. Create a new GitHub repository or go to an existing one. Open the…
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Publishing with GitHub Pages, now as easy as 1, 2, 3
Publishing a website or software documentation with GitHub Pages now requires far fewer steps — three to be exact: Create a repository (or navigate to an existing repository) Commit a Markdown…
Relative links for GitHub pages
You've been able to use relative links when authoring Markdown on GitHub.com for a while. Now, those links will continue to work when published via GitHub Pages. If you have…
What’s new in GitHub Pages with Jekyll 3.3
GitHub Pages has upgraded to Jekyll 3.3.0, a release with some nice quality-of-life features. First, Jekyll 3.3 introduces two new convenience filters, relative_url and absolute_url. They provide an easy way…
GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 3.2
As promised, GitHub Pages has been upgraded to Jekyll 3.2. The move to Jekyll 3.2 brings over 100 improvements including the introduction of Gem-based themes. You can begin using the…
Publish Your Project Documentation with GitHub Pages
You might be familiar with how GitHub Pages helps you share your work with the world or maybe you have attended a class that helped you build your first GitHub…
Simpler GitHub Pages publishing
We're making it easier to publish a website with GitHub Pages. Now you can select a source in your repository settings and GitHub Pages will look for your content there.…
GitHub Pages to upgrade to Jekyll 3.2
GitHub Pages will upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 on August 23rd. The upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 comes with over 100 improvements including the introduction of themes, meaning that soon, you'll be…
HTTPS for GitHub Pages
Millions of people rely on GitHub Pages to host their websites and millions more visit these websites every day. To better protect traffic to GitHub Pages sites, as well as…
GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 3.1
As promised, GitHub Pages has moved to the Jekyll 3.1 branch with an upgrade to Jekyll 3.1.6. Jekyll 3.1 brings significant performance improvements to GitHub Pages. By using Liquid::Drops, rather…
Better discoverability for GitHub Pages sites
Ensuring that your GitHub Pages site appears in search engines and is shareable via social media is now easier with the introduction of the Jekyll SEO Tag plugin. By simply…
GitHub Pages to upgrade to Jekyll 3.1.4
GitHub Pages will upgrade to the soon-to-be-released Jekyll 3.1.4 on May 23rd. The Jekyll 3.1.x branch brings significant performance improvements to the build process, adds a handful of helpful Liquid…
GitHub Pages drops support for RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines
Back in February, we announced, that GitHub Pages would be dropping support for the RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines, and today we're making it official. For the vast…
Preview GitHub Pages metadata locally
A year ago, Jekyll sites on GitHub pages gained access to repository and organization metadata with the introduction of the site.github namespace. We recently moved our own site.github implementation to…
A look behind our decision to standardize on a single Markdown engine for GitHub Pages
Two months ago, we announced that GitHub Pages is dropping support for the RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines on May 1st. For the vast majority of users, this…
GitHub Pages now faster and simpler with Jekyll 3.0
GitHub Pages is now running the latest major version of Jekyll, Jekyll 3.0, and with it, many of the complexities associated with publishing have been further simplified, meaning it's now…
Easier feeds for GitHub Pages
If you publish a blog using GitHub pages, it's now easier for others to subscribe to updates. The Jekyll Feed plugin, now available to all GitHub Pages sites, can automatically…
Rearchitecting GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single…
Releases metadata for GitHub Pages
Last year, we exposed repository and organization metadata to help you showcase your open source efforts on GitHub Pages. We're adding releases metadata to that list, allowing you to more…
Eight lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months
Believe it or not, just over a year ago, GitHub Pages, the documentation hosting service that powers nearly three-quarters of a million sites, was little more than a 100-line shell…
GitHub Pages legacy IP brownout
This week we will be conducting a "brownout" of all misconfigured GitHub Pages sites. If your GitHub Pages site's DNS is pointed at an out-of-date IP address, we will intermittently…