Bug in applying custom layout to pages theme

[lol-dungeonmaster]

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There's a bug in applying a custom layout on pages. I had added a navigation panel to hacker theme which works perfectly locally. However when deployed to pages the navigation panel does not appear, and is not in the generated html. Only locally does it work.

I tried with/without remote-themes. Any suggestions or is it a bug?

tested with: https://github.com/lol-dungeonmaster/THaTWoIV-concept-art

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[lol-dungeonmaster]

on github.com the _layout must call {{ content }} and this will generate the boilerplate container and main_content blocks. Any

code in _layout itself is ignored. The only workaround is to include the code in the index.md that contains the site. This is a nuisance in that it probably breaks markdown parsing during site build. You can workaround this by converting the markdown to html before, but you lose cool-stuff like syntax highlighting that happens with the markdown processing.

debug jekyll pages build
nav.html in index.md

[mecodeatlas]

Hi @lol-dungeonmaster 👋

Thanks for sharing the details! This doesn’t appear to be a bug, but rather a limitation related to Jekyll builds on GitHub Pages. The version used by branch builds is older and may not support some of the configurations or custom layouts you’ve implemented.

To resolve this, I recommend building your site using a GitHub Actions workflow - this allows you to use the same Jekyll version you run locally, ensuring consistent results and theme behavior.

You can find more details about this approach here:

• About building and deploying Jekyll sites using GitHub Actions

Hope it helps!

[lol-dungeonmaster]

Thank you for the tip I will give it a try!