Site description variable in config.yaml is ignored when generating site

[RahulRajkumar]

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Describe the bug Changing description in config.yaml does not change the description meta tag generated by Jekyll. Pasting the link into eg discord or inspecting page source gives the following description regardless of changes to config.yaml: "A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics"

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Build site
2. inspect page source
3. <meta name="description" content="A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on *folio design.

Expected behavior The content generated by {{site.description}} in the head.html file ought to mirror variable in config.yaml

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System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Pop!_OS 20.10 (Ubuntu Groovy-derivative)
• Browser (and its version) Mozilla Firefox for ubuntu 88.0.1 (64-bit)
• Jekyll version 4.2.0
  • Ruby version ruby 2.7.1p83 (2020-03-31 revision a0c7c23c9c) [x86_64-linux-gnu]

[alshedivat]

Thanks for reporting this. Everything works as expected on my end -- if I change the description in _config.yml, it changes on webpage. A couple of things to note:

• If you change anything in _config.yml, you have to rebuild the website again after that (e.g., if you are running bundle exec jekyll serve, you have to kill it and re-run again).
• Do you happen to have .jekyll-cache folder in your repo's root directory? It might be caching some old stuff, so you may need to remove it and re-build the website again.

Please lmk if you are still running into this issue.

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