GitHub Pages: How do I edit this page in markdown format, just as I created it?

Question

I'm not too comfortable with touching the generated HTML that the site gives, I was wondering whether there is any way to change the contents of my page in markdown formatting, the same way that I did upon creating the page?

Any input as to go about doing this would be awesome.

Answer 1

By default, GitHub Pages helps you generate html pages only.

But if you setup your site to use jekyll, then you can store files in markdown. For example, in the _posts section of this repo 'cboettig/labnotebook' which is generated to carlboettiger.info.

See Help page "Using Jekyll with Pages"

More specifically (as highlighted in esfandia's answer), see "The Automatic Page Generator", which allows for markdown editing.

As commented by dregad, there is a new theme chooser in Dec. 2016:

See this article by Antriksh Yadav:

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Update August 2016: Simpler GitHub Pages publishing now allows to keep your page files in a subfolder of the same branch (no more gh-pages needed):

So you don't need multiple branch anymore.