no layouts / homepage

First I tried to use the GUI and got an error.

So then ssh’d into the plugin directory and ran it as PHP. It produced an empty zip file, but found a 134MB wp-jekyll.zip file in the server’s /tmp/ directory. This seemed to have much of the website including 110 markdown files in the _posts directory, a bunch of pages in the root directory (oddly including a empty subdirectory of the same name for each page) and a _config.yml. However, there were no layout pages nor the home page to the site. when i run a jekyll build, it gives me an error for each page that the layout ‘page’ or layout ‘post’ requested in the md file does not exist. The layout page is pretty core to what I need here. Can I get this plugin to build it?

Thanks!