Run local jekyll serve jekyll serve #Aumatically inspect the changes in your site and re-construct the site. #This parameter will not work well if you use jekyll portable server mentioned #in HOW-To. jekyll serve --watch #First set <baseurl: http_address (no trailing slash)> in <_config.xml> #Remember to use site.baseurl to represent site.url in all needed places. #Then run following command and begin local test jekyll serve --baseurl= Jekyll tag like highlight never closed [Liquid exception: highlight tag was never closed][1] #add the following line to _config.xml to let the excerpt #include the entire post before further process. #Normally, an empty string will end excerpt immediately and problem solved. #Also there is a bona fide that the build process will be slightly faster. excerpt_separator: "" [1] http://blog.slaks.net/2013-08-09/jekyll-tag-was-never-closed