GitHub pages are not updating

Question

I\'m running into a weird issue with GitHub pages. I pushed a new commit to my personal pages page maltzj.github.io, but the new article isn\'t showing up there. When I exec

Answer 1

In my case there were two problems (one "pebcak" and then a more valid one).

I had two email addresses set up in GitHub and I was checking the non-primary email for build error messages (to manage emails: log in to GitHub, click on user menu on the top right, select Settings and then "Emails" from the left menu -build error messages will arrive at the primary email set).

Once I got to see the error messages I found out I had added a description, including a ":" character in my _config.yaml and since this is the character used to separate key,value pairs, it was preventing the site to build.