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Jekyll custom plugins in Github page

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Github page, which uses Jekyll as it static site generator, is a very convenient way to host a personal website. However, Github only supports some official plugins they listed, to use other plugins, you have to build the site yourself. In this post, I would like to discuss their difficulties and how to overcome them. Problems The first problem is, of course, Github does not support custom plugins and they have a valid point to do so - security. Allowing arbitrary code to run on their server is somewhat vulnerable and they don’t want to do so. Hence, I do not expect them to change that anytime soon. However, some plugins are really helpful...

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