Changing personal site configuration with jekyll

Question

I'm trying to build a site with jekyll. I managed to make math work and upload some files. Now the overall distribution of content is not optimal.

• I get a link to "HEAD" that lists a series of updates of Jekyll. I would like to get rid of that.
• The main url redirects to some blog entries while you have to click on "About" in order to go to some general information about me. I would like to do it in the opposite way, i.e. having the about section shown in the main url of the page https://rjraya.github.io/ and the blog in some derived url like https://rjraya.github.io/blog

Here are the sources of the page. How can I do this simple changes? I understand that I'm using the Minima template.

Answer 1

Re: HEAD

I think the "HEAD" is coming from the History.markdown file. It is strange that the "HEAD" does not show up in a local jekyll serve development environment. I suspect the code below is picking up History.markdown in jekyll, along with about.md when rendering header.html.

https://github.com/rjraya/rjraya.github.io/blob/ddc6a2f5c5804961da6ac79472b7f77052bef267/_includes/header.html#L20-L27

    <div class="trigger">
      {%- for path in page_paths -%}
        {%- assign my_page = site.pages | where: "path", path | first -%}
        {%- if my_page.title -%}
        <a class="page-link" href="{{ my_page.url | relative_url }}">{{ my_page.title | escape }}</a>
        {%- endif -%}
      {%- endfor -%}
    </div>

RE: Page Title URL Computational reflections

Change the href from / to /blog in this line https://github.com/rjraya/rjraya.github.io/blob/ddc6a2f5c5804961da6ac79472b7f77052bef267/_includes/header.html#L7

<a class="site-title" rel="author" href="{{ "/blog" | relative_url }}">{{ site.title | escape }}</a>

RE: About URL

Remove the permalink : /about/ from the about.md page. The about.md will be come the homepage (e.g. /) in the next step. https://github.com/rjraya/rjraya.github.io/blob/gh-pages/about.md

RE: Show about.md information on homepage rjraya.github.io and show _posts markdown files under rjraya.github.io/blog

Let jekyll use the default behavior of assigning permalinks based on the markdown filename.

Rename index.md to blog.md. This will move the list of _posts files from / to /blog.

Rename about.md to index.md. This will move the content of about.md from /about to /.