Publish to local Jekyll Fails

[CheetahChrome]

I attempt to publish to my local Jekyll blog C:\WorkBlog and the application, not the publish popup page, reports a failure in the status bar.

When I review the Jekyll _Posts directory, I do see a title-less file 2022-11-09-.markdown. When I open the file, it contains all my markdown from the originating post, but the header info is blank:

---
layout: post
title: 
date: 2022-11-09T00:00:00.0000000-07:00
categories: []
tags: []
published: true
permalink: 
featuredImageUrl: 
---

Notes

• There is no image being published only straight markdown text.
• File MarkdownMonsterErrors.txt exists with older errors, but nothing recent.
• Publish Settings;

[RickStrahl]

It's been a long time since I've looked at this code. I have to install Jekyll on Windows again to check this out so this may take a bit...

I suspect this may be path issues? Did you check your folders to see if the images ended up somewhere else than where your Jekyll defaults are expecting them?

[CheetahChrome]

Brand new local, to my machine, blog...no images published/used ...so I'm not seeing an images folder at the root or anywhere else. To be clear, when publishing with MDM, the posts had no images.

[RickStrahl]

I tried to install Jekyll on WSL tonight but no luck. The install just fails continually and after spending nearly an hour looking at all the f*cked up workarounds and solutions of trying to sync up versions I gave up. I swear there at least 10 different install scenarios that I looked at after I started wit hthe official one on the Web site.

Just seems that running Jekyll on Windows is a fool's errand.

I think at this point I'm just going to pull support for this out of MM. If I could at least get it to run locally without contortions that would be one thing but I went through this originally when I added support for it.

Usage of this functionality is also very low - most people that use it just write their posts directly in the Jekyll folder structure I guess - or perhaps not many people are still using Jekyll these days.

If anybody has an alternative place to find installation instructions or wants to help me get this set up I might take another swipe but otherwise I can't fix any issues and am more likely to pull this out.

[RickStrahl]

Got another machine to try this on and will give it another shot to see if I can get Jekyll installed based on their crappy WSL instructions.