Where does the head section come from when github pages generates source?

Question

I created index.md for my GitHub pages site with the following in index.md

---
title: This is my title
layout: default
---
## Welcome to GitHub Pages My Index.md
 etc

I am just editing the index.md directly in the GitHub editor. I have not installed Jekyll locally.

What do I change so that the generated source does not have my repository name in the title ? Looking at the source I have

I have tried changing the theme.

I also tried experimented with adding a header.html to the _includes folder

This caused me to start receiving emails with subject containing "Page build failed"

Since then I have removed all the folders. I no longer get the "Page build failed" email, but I am unsure of how to proceed.

Studying help.github.com/articles/… I copied the default.html as described. I think I need to change the line <title>{{ site.title | default: site.github.repository_name }} by {{ site.github.owner_name }}</title> — Kirsten

jpvillaisaza jpvillaisaza · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-05T22:00:16

To avoid this, you can create your own _layouts/default.html, which should look something like this:

<!doctype>
<html>
  <head>
    <title></title>
  </head>
  <body>
    {{ content }}
  </body>
</html>

And then apply the layout to your files:

---
layout: default
---

...

If you want to include the page title in the title tag, you can do something like this instead of the _layouts/default.html above:

<!doctype>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>{{ page.title }}</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    {{ content }}
  </body>
</html>

Which will use the title in your YAML front matter:

---
layout: default
title: Title
---

...

For more information, take a look at the Jekyll documentation: