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I'm not able to find the "automatic page generator button" under a repository's setting page. Could someone please let me know where I can find the button? Thank you!

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  • Have a look at https://pages.github.com/ - that's got all the info about Github Pages now. – Jack Deeth Dec 20 '16 at 19:27
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    Things have changed. A more recent documentation is at → [pages.github.com](https://pages.github.com/) – Frank N Jan 15 '17 at 09:03
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    See an answer here: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/102324/github-pages-i-cannot-access-automatic-page-generator – iled Feb 16 '17 at 06:33
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    Github's overview video on pages.github.com still includes using the "Launch automatic page generator button". They really need to change that. – jmdeamer May 25 '17 at 02:12
  • from the webapps.SE you can see this feature has been removed. the idea of doing this in my case was to customize the built in jekyll themes. So I wanted to generate the site and change the css. Since it's no more I just built it locally with jekyll and got running quickly using the official docker image. – gideon Jan 31 '18 at 08:35
  • 2022: [no more theme picker either](https://stackoverflow.com/a/73454724/6309). – VonC Aug 23 '22 at 07:31

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There is no automatic page generator button in GitHub anymore, I am not able to find it in any of my repos. GitHub now uses Jekyll to make the pages.

Instead, you can do the following to create a GitHub webpage: Go to github.com/YOUR_REPO_NAME/settings/ then scroll down to the GitHub Pages section and select the "Choose a theme" button. Then choose a theme and select the green "Chose theme" button. Now create an index.html in the master branch and create your page there.

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  • so we _have_ to upload .html files, and there is no way to upload markdown files and have github apply the selected style? – Benni Dec 30 '16 at 13:33
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    You can now go back to the same place and press the `Choose theme` button, and it will work the exact same way it used to! You just can't make a gh-pages branch anymore. – William V. Jan 05 '17 at 01:27
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    The video at https://pages.github.com/ still mentions the automatic page generator – Kirsten Mar 05 '17 at 05:09
  • This is probably because the video is older, and GitHub has not had time to update it. – William V. Mar 07 '17 at 01:08
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    September 2017 and the same video is still there. Not a great introduction for the new GitHub Pages users that it is aimed at. – Vince O'Sullivan Oct 04 '17 at 06:20
  • If you choose a *Jekyll* **theme** as outlined in the GitHub Pages [guide](https://pages.github.com/) it automatically creates the associated **index** and other files to properly display *.md* *markdown* files as a site. – AdamHurwitz Dec 23 '18 at 21:50
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    2020 and the video is still not updated. XD – Pranav Kasetti Dec 14 '20 at 13:59