Retired
Sunsetting GitHub Pages’ legacy worker
GitHub Pages’ legacy pagesworker architecture was shut down on June 30, 2024. In August 2022, GitHub Actions became the default method to build and deploy Pages sites. Branch deployment remains available, but now requires GitHub Actions unless a .nojekyll file is used.
To build a Pages site from a branch with Jekyll, you must enable GitHub Actions in the repository settings. Alternatively, if GitHub Actions is unavailable or disabled, adding a .nojekyll file to the root of your source branch will bypass the Jekyll build process and deploy the content directly. In this case, you would need to build the site yourself and push the static assets to your source branch.