Editing Jekyll index.html

Question

I'm trying to change my github pages Jekyll index.html

--- layout: default ---
{% for post in site.posts %}
{{ post.title }}
{{ post.excerpt }} 
Read More 
{% endfor %}

to

--- layout: default ---
{% for post in site.posts %}
{{ post.title }}
{{content}} 
Read More 
{% endfor %}

so the entire post shows up on the homepage.

When I run jekyll serve I don't get what I want

However, the strange thing is that when I edit the index.html back to it's original content, I still get the wrong output

Editing the index.html in my Jekyll folder is breaking everything, what's going on? The only way I can get the site to work again is to delete index.html and replace it with a copy of the original.

I should point out that the index.html file I'm editing is the same folder that contains the _site, _posts folders.

Try to build your site first using this command jekyll build --watch from the terminal. — ismnoiet
Make sure that you have all required gem packages installed by issuing this command in your jekyll site folder : gem install. — ismnoiet

alykhank alykhank · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-01T22:23:11

According to the Jekyll Docs, your front matter should be surrounded by --- on separate lines. Your file likely isn't being parsed since it is all on a single line, try this instead:

---
layout: default
---
{% for post in site.posts %}
{{ post.title }}
{{content}} 
Read More 
{% endfor %}

Editing Jekyll index.html

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