Build Warning: Layout 'home' requested in index.markdown does not exist.

[mgifford]

I'm starting with the simple example here https://jekyllrb.com/docs/

This is different than the project I've started on GitHub with GitHub Pages. Just trying to run this theme over the default example.

I get this error:
Build Warning: Layout 'home' requested in index.markdown does not exist.

Now I'm confused about the .md vs .markdown but the index.markdown exists. I comment out layout: home

and the error goes away, but I just get a white screen now.

It's been over a year since I've done anything with Jekyll but I've built a site with it before so I'm not totally fresh.

[abhn]

Thanks again for an interesting catch. My apologies for not replying sooner as I had some Sunday evening calls to make.

When we change the theme in _config.yml, we tell Jekyll to not use its default theme and use the one we supply.

Unfortunately, the default index.markdown file in the root has layout: home, but Elementary theme only supplies two page types; post and page. I changed the layout: home to layout: page and it worked fine.

Which lead me to discover another problem. There's no index page. The one in ./elementary directory gets excluded. So we'd also need to manually copy that file to the root of the folder. I'll need to see if there's a more elegant way of making that work.

[mgifford]

Thanks.. It's mostly about documentation. If you start from the default install then there should be instructions to move past it. Thanks for explaining it here.