Jekyll can't find 'home' layout

Question

I have just started trying to use jekyll for github pages.

I wished to use the theme leap-day. Following the instructions, It just came up with some can not find post / can not find page errors, I followed the instruction ongithub to create _layouts/page.html and _layouts/post.html

Now I am finding it is complaining it can't find home layout.

Answer 1

Jekyll theme leap-day has just one layout: default.html while most of the times the first Jekyll version uses minima who has three: default, page and post.

To properly use leap-day make all your pages/posts and home page use layout: default.