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I have absolutely never written any Ruby programs. I'm just setting up my static blog using Jekyll.

I installed everything from Gemfile by bundle install. My Gemfile looks like this:

This is the first time that I am going to use Jekyll to build a static site. I would like to use a dozen plugins that are not white listed for deploying on Github. My question is : is it possible to deploy a such site with a dozen plugins (not white listed) on github ? Browsing on internet, I found the following assertions : 1) We can't run user plugins on GitHub Pages due to security restrictions. That' what the documentation says 2) You are free to generate your site locally and push the resulting HTML to a Git repo, however : what does that means ? First when you generate the site locally, it ends with a group of HTML files and that group of html files, are they enough to run the site autonomously (for example must you include the css files in html pages ) ? Furthermore when you push the resulting HTML to a Git repo, is it enough to deploy it on a production environment (on GITHUB for example) ? and how you do that ? 3) on this link (https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-plugins-with-github-pages/) I found the following explaination : Adding Jekyll plugins to a GitHub Pages site

You can further customize your GitHub Pages site by adding Jekyll plugins. (do they talk about all plugins ?)

GitHub Pages officially supports the Jekyll plugins found in the GitHub Pages gem. For the exact versions of the Jekyll plugins that GitHub Pages supports, see this list of GitHub Pages dependencies. Other plugins are not supported, so the only way to incorporate them in your site is to generate your site locally and then push your site's static files to your GitHub Pages site. So as they say, it is possible , generating your site locally and then pushing your site's static files to your GitHub Pages site. Is there a detailled procedure example somewhere ?

Thanks in advance for your answers