Do you want to communicate more effectively with other GitHub users? Are you looking for a free way to promote your GitHub project?

Github Pages Markdown Tutorial

Learn how to use Markdown to effectively communicate with others in your GitHub issues, pull requests, comments, and documentation. Then learn how to build project sites and blog posts to promote your projects with GitHub Pages.

In this learning path, you'll learn how:

• Headers in Markdown. Lines starting with # get converted to HTML H1 headers, lines starting with ## become H2 headers, and so on. Organize your site carefully using headers because levels H1-H3 are indexed automatically by search engines. Putting words most relevant to your audience into headers also helps in search engine results.
• Give the new repo the name of ‘Markdown-Lessons-Project’ Add a Description to the new repo, as follows: A repo of Markdown Lessons hosted by GitHub Pages. Leave the default Public ( You can still choose who can commit changes after forking the repo ) Check the box ‘Initialize this repository with a ReadMe. Add.gitignore VisualStudio.

Github Pages Markdown Software

A repo of Markdown Lessons hosted by GitHub Pages. Leave the default Public ( You can still choose who can commit changes after forking the repo ) Check the box ‘Initialize this repository with a ReadMe. Add.gitignore VisualStudio. Add a license GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. All Markdown files are now rendered by GitHub Pages, saving you from needing to add YAML front matter (the metadata at the top of the file separated by -s) to each file. We’ll use your README file as the site’s index if you don’t have an index.md (or index.html ), not dissimilar from when you browse to a repository on GitHub.

• Markdown enables you to organize your thoughts through code, images, lists, and tables.
• GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM) enables syntax highlighting for popular programming languages and enables you to link to issues, pull requests, and commits.
• GitHub Pages helps you create project pages and blog posts that include custom themes.

You can choose a Markdown processor to determine how Markdown is rendered on your GitHub Pages site.

GitHub Pages is available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see 'GitHub's products.'

People with write permissions for a repository can set the Markdown processor for a GitHub Pages site.

Github Pages Markdown

GitHub Pages supports two Markdown processors: kramdown and GitHub's own extended CommonMark processor, which is used to render GitHub Flavored Markdown throughout GitHub. For more information, see 'About writing and formatting on GitHub.'

You can use GitHub Flavored Markdown with either processor, but only our CommonMark processor will always match the results you see on GitHub.

Github Pages Markdown Guide

1. On GitHub, navigate to your site's repository.

2. In your repository, browse to the _config.yml file.

3. In the upper right corner of the file view, click to open the file editor.

4. Find the line that starts with markdown: and change the value to kramdown or GFM.

5. At the bottom of the page, type a short, meaningful commit message that describes the change you made to the file. You can attribute the commit to more than one author in the commit message. For more information, see 'Creating a commit with multiple co-authors.'

6. If you have more than one email address associated with your GitHub account, click the email address drop-down menu and select the email address to use as the Git author email address. Only verified email addresses appear in this drop-down menu. If you enabled email address privacy, then <username>@users.noreply.github.com is the default commit author email address. For more information, see 'Setting your commit email address.'

7. Below the commit message fields, decide whether to add your commit to the current branch or to a new branch. If your current branch is the default branch, you should choose to create a new branch for your commit and then create a pull request. For more information, see 'Creating a new pull request.'

8. Click Propose new file.

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