Define site.title in a Jekyll template

Question

My Problem

I am building a Jekyll static site using the jekyll-materialize-starter-template.

The home page contains an h1 title in the front center:

Which reads Your awesome title, and defined in _layouts/home.html:

<h1 class="header center orange-text">{{ site.title }}</h1>

How can I set the value of site.title?

What have I tried

• Searched for site.title and title
• Read the docs about variables
• Hard-code my title. Works, but it feels like the wrong thing to do - variables should be properly set.

My question

How can I set the site.title variable used by a Jekyll template?

Answer 1

Edit _config.yml and locate the title key:

title: Starter Template

or

title: Your awesome title

and change that value.

If you are developing with a local server, restart the jekyll server to reflect changes to config.