title: Why is Font Awesome not working on my jekyll-built Github site?
body: <p>I am using Jekyll to build my blog site, which is hosted by Github, and I am trying to incorporate font-awesome. The fa icons don't show up, and now my Github page is not updated with my latest blog post.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried to link the font-awesome stylesheets to my css. I ended up using {% includes font-awesome.css %} in my stylesheet.css file, and I think that works fine.</p>
  
  <p>In my navbar html, I've included the typical font-awesome i tag like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/index.html"&gt;&lt;i class='fa-home'&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the icons are not showing up on my Github site.</p>
  
  <p>Also Github pages won't let me use the Jekyll-font-awesome plugin.
  This was the plugin I used: <a href="https://gist.github.com/23maverick23/8532525" rel="noreferrer">https://gist.github.com/23maverick23/8532525</a>
  I added the plugin, <strong>jekyll build</strong> worked, but after I pushed the files to Github, I got this message from Github:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The page build failed with the following error:</p>
    
    <p>The tag <code>icon</code> in <code>_includes/navbar.html,</code> is not a recognized Liquid
    tag.
    <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/page-build-failed-unknown-tag-error" rel="noreferrer">https://help.github.com/articles/page-build-failed-unknown-tag-error</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>So I've removed the plugin and reverted to the recommended 'i' tags instead of the liquid tags.</p>
  
  <p>When run <strong>jekyll build</strong> everything works fine. Then I commit my changes and push to github, and no errors.</p>
  
  <p>When I run <strong>jekyll serve</strong> and view it locally, the icons show up and my latest blog post is visible.</p>
  
  <p>But when I go to my Github page, my new blog post is not updating, and the font-awesome icons are not showing up.</p>
  
  <p>Where did I go wrong? Why does Github Pages not like Font Awesome?</p>