# Preview GitHub Pages metadata locally

DevFeed: [Preview GitHub Pages metadata locally](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/preview-github-pages-metadata-locally-69688.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://github.blog/news-insights/the-library/preview-github-pages-metadata-locally/>)

Author: Parker Moore

Published: 2016-04-22T01:20:12Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [GitHub Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/github-engineering.md>)

Topics: [GitHub Pages](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github-pages.md>), [Jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jekyll.md>)

Tags: [config](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/config.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [github-pages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github-pages.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/implementation.md>), [jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jekyll.md>), [news-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news-insights.md>), [the-library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/the-library.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how developers can preview GitHub Pages sites locally using repository and organization metadata. It describes GitHub's move to the community-driven jekyll-github-metadata plugin and shows how to add that gem to a site's configuration when using the GitHub Pages gem.

## Source excerpt

A year ago, Jekyll sites on GitHub pages gained access to repository and organization metadata with the introduction of the site.github namespace. We recently moved our own site.github implementation to...