Adding pages to Jekyll site

title: Adding pages to Jekyll site published: true date: 2019-07-19 08:30:00 UTC tags: jekyll, web-dev canonical_url: https://www.ravgeet.dev/blog/adding-pages-to-jekyll-site/

This is tutorial can be used to add pages to any Jekyll site. I am assuming that you have setup your Ruby Development Environment. If not, then refer to this document here to get started easily.

Below are few easy steps that you can follow to add pages to your Jekyll site. I have also attached images to explain the process better.

Note: I have taken the example of GTK Website, I’m working on. You can find it’s Gitlab instance here.

Step 1.

In collections/_docs directory, create a new file with name: hello-world.md.

Step 2.

I want this page to be available at the following link: http://localhost:4000/docs/tutorials/hello-world/

Add the following front matter to the hello-world.md.

---
permalink: /docs/tutorials/:name/
---

Step 3.

Add your content in the Markdown format to the `hello-world.md.

This is the demo file to show the process of adding new pages to a Jekyll site.

Step 4.

In _data directory, open the navigation.yml file and update the sidebar_links array by adding the following content:

- title: Hello World
  name: hello-world
  section: Tutorials

here,

• title is display text on sidebar on docs page
• name is the name of the file which should be pointed to when the link is accessed
• section is category this page should fall under

Step 5.

In case the new file is the main section page, then update the sidebar_sections array by adding the following content:

- title: Tutorials
  name: tutorials

here,

• title is display text on sidebar on docs page
• name is the name of the file which should be pointed to when the link is accessed

Step 6.

Save all the files and serve the website on the local server by running the following command.

bundle exec jekyll serve

Step 7.

Go to http://localhost:4000/docs/tutorials/hello-world/ and the page is up and running.

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