Here is a solution with alphabetically sorted tags on a single page. It uses Liquid only, which means that it works on GitHub Pages: {% capture tags %} {% for tag in site.tags %} {{ tag[0] }} {% endfor %} {% endcapture %} {% assign sortedtags = tags | split:’ ‘ | sort %} {% … Read more
Fenced blocks were introduced with Redcarpet 2. Jekyll now supports Redcarpet 2. As an aside I am using Redcarpet with Rouge until Kramdown support is available. In addition some people prefer Nanoc to Jekyll.
I think you’ll want to use the cycle tag for this. For example: {% for post in site.categories.articles %} <article class=”{% cycle ‘odd’, ‘even’ %}”></article> {% endfor %} If you want different HTML markup for each cycle: {% for item in site.posts %} {% capture thecycle %}{% cycle ‘odd’, ‘even’ %}{% endcapture %} {% if … Read more
I do this in two pages I have set up in Jekyll. The first thing I do is creating an entry inside _config.yml with the information of all the pages: # this goes inside _config.yml. Change as required navigation: – text: What we do url: /en/what-we-do/ – text: Who we are url: /en/who-we-are/ – text: … Read more
If you are using Kramdown, based on their doc you can do this: <div markdown=”1″> My text with **markdown** syntax </div> And this way, the text within the div is rendered as markdown. Make sure to use the .md or .markdown extension for the file, as .html files aren’t sent to Kramdown for processing!
Something like {{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords: 50 }} produces a more consistent excerpt. It gets the first 50 words and strips any formatting.
It can be done with much, much less Liquid code than in the existing answers: {% for post in site.posts %} {% assign currentdate = post.date | date: “%Y” %} {% if currentdate != date %} <li id=”y{{currentdate}}”>{{ currentdate }}</li> {% assign date = currentdate %} {% endif %} <li><a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19086284/{{ post.url }}”>{{ post.title }}</a></li> … Read more
If you are using MacOS, from the Troubleshooting guide: Jekyll & Mac OS X 10.11Permalink With the introduction of System Integrity Protection, several directories that were previously writable are now considered system locations and are no longer available. Given these changes, there are a couple of simple ways to get up and running. One option … Read more
This is what I did to change the theme of an existing Jekyll installation. Adjust these instructions to suit your needs. Pull the new theme We create a new orphan branch newtheme and ensure it’s empty. git checkout –orphan newtheme git rm -rf . git clean -dfx Then we pull the theme files into it … Read more
While building my own site I came across this very same problem, and I have found an (IMHO) easy and robust solution. The Problem Given a subset of pages (not posts) on the site, list them under headings based on their categories. For example: given a set of pages which we consider resource pages (or … Read more