Jekyll serve didn’t work: It looks like you don’t have pygments or one of its dependencies installed
I had the same issue but fixed it installing pygments gem. gem install pygments.rb And adding it to my Gemfile. gem ‘pygments.rb’
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How to show a preview of a post? (Using Jekyll Bootstrap theme)
This also works at least as of 1.0.0, is built in and is simple to use. <ul> {% for post in site.posts %} <li> <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10859175/{{ post.url }}”>{{ post.title }}</a> <p>{{ post.excerpt }}</p> </li> {% endfor %} </ul> See here.
Assign an array literal to a variable in Liquid Template
Frontmatter This is a good workaround, add to the top of your file: — my_array: – one – two – three — then use it as: {{ page.my_array }} Analogous for site wide site.data.my_array on the _config or under _data/some_file.yml. Jekyll 3 update for layouts If the frontmatter is that of a layout, you need … Read more
How to adjust Jekyll post order?
There is an example in the official Jekyll documentation how to create a basic post archive page: Displaying an index of posts Bonus: For a prettier archive page (grouped by year or year/month), see this answer. You’re right, I can’t find anything in the docs where it says how the posts are ordered, but in … Read more
Jekyll Filename Without Date
Don’t use posts; posts are things with dates. Sounds like you probably want to use collections instead; you get all the power of Posts; but without the pesky date / naming requirements. https://jekyllrb.com/docs/collections/ I use collections for almost everything that isn’t a post. This is how my own site is configured to use collections for … Read more
Jekyll for loop over all images in a folder?
This worked like a charm for me. No plugins required. My images are in a assets/images/slider directory. {% for image in site.static_files %} {% if image.path contains ‘images/slider’ %} <img src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17677094/{{ site.baseurl }}{{ image.path }}” alt=”image” /> {% endif %} {% endfor %} The image.path contains ‘images/slider’ makes sure that only images in that folder … Read more
Jekyll auto reloading
As of version 3.7 run jekyll serve –livereload.
Liquid templates: even/odd items in for loop
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
Generating a list of pages (not posts) in a given category
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
Jekyll/Liquid Templating: How to group blog posts by year?
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