Creating individual blog posts in GitHub pages is easy. In this post I will show you the basics.

How to easy post in GitHub Pages

Posts must be in the folder _postsand must have a special file format.

Naming the file

The format is the following:

YYY-MM-DD-NAME-OF-POST.md

YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers. The file can have the .md or .markdown extension.

The file header

Add a header with the following values to the file:

---
layout: post
title:  "Posting in Jekyll"
date:   2021-08-13 17:30:00 -0200
categories: GitHub Jekyll Markdown
permalink: /2021-08-13_posting-in-jekyll/
published: true
---

Add content

Use markdown to write the post.