Jekyll post not generated

Question

I am trying to add a new post to my Jekyll site, but I cannot see it on the generated pages when I run jekyll serve.

What are some common reasons for a

Answer 1

If you have checked your front matter, and all seems well, and even jekyll build --verbose doesn't reveal anything (in my case, it just acted as if the file didn't exist at all, not even listing it as excluded), check the encoding of your file. Apparently, it needs to be UTF-8 without signature. It it's UTF-8 BOM (or UTF-8 with Signature as some text editors call it), then it will be silently ignored. To make matters worse, some editors will display both types as just UTF-8, making the difference even harder to spot.