Diagnosing Jekyll Build Failures Due to Malformed Front‑Matter YAML
Learn how to spot and fix Jekyll build failures caused by malformed front‑matter YAML, with a step‑by‑step diagnostic flow, fixes, and verification steps.
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Learn how to spot and fix Jekyll build failures caused by malformed front‑matter YAML, with a step‑by‑step diagnostic flow, fixes, and verification steps.
Jekyll edits not appearing in _site with incremental regeneration on. Diagnostic guide for stale pages, cache drift, and missing updates after renames or moves, with ordered checks and fixes.
Configure Jekyll's official jekyll-paginate plugin to split your post list into numbered pages, update the template to use the paginator object, and verify the generated page structure — plus the silent-failure checklist.
Problem When building a Jekyll site, only pages 1‑5 appear even though paginate is set to 10 and there are 100 posts. The built‑in jekyll‑paginate gem caps output at five pages. Context The configuration contains paginate: 10 and paginate_path: "/page/:num" . The max_pages key is present but seems ignored. The site uses Jekyll 4.2.2. The expectation is to se