This is post geared towards users who are not git savvy, and wish to use github-pages to power their blogs. Here is how to create a new post, using just the github interface.
- Login into your github account, select your github.io repository.
- Go to the _posts directory, and click on ‘Create File’
- Fill in the filename in the format ‘YYYY-MM-DD-postname.md’
- Fill in the frontmatter aka metadata, starting and ending with three dashes, like this.