By Tom Preston-Werner, Nick Quaranto, and many awesome contributors!
Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub.
- Install the gem
- Read up about its Usage and Configuration
- Take a gander at some existing Sites
- Fork and Contribute your own modifications
- Have questions? Post them on the Mailing List
- Migrate from your previous system
- Learn how the YAML Front Matter works
- Put information on your site with Template Data
- Customize the Permalinks your posts are generated with
- Use the built-in Liquid Extensions to make your life easier
- RedCloth: Textile support (Ruby)
- Liquid: Templating system (Ruby)
- Classifier: Generating related posts (Ruby)
- Maruku: Default markdown engine (Ruby)
- Directory Watcher: Auto-regeneration of sites (Ruby)
- Open4: Talking to pygments for syntax highlighting (Ruby)
- Pygments: Syntax highlighting (Python)
- Shoulda: Test framework (Ruby)
- RR: Mocking (Ruby)
- RedGreen: Nicer test output (Ruby)
Based on the Mikewest Jekyll Fork, i have adding this functionality to the last version of jekyll (0.5.7 at this moment). It generates a folder structure by years, months and days. The layouts used to render this views are test/source/layouts/archivemonthly.html, layouts/archiveyearly.html and layouts/archivedaily.html. We can then have the following code in, for example, archive/index.html:
Based also on the Mikewest Jekyll Fork, it generates for each tag declarated in a post definition, a view based on test/source/layouts/tag_index.html. In addition, now you can ask for {% site.tags_list%} that returns an array of all tags used in all posts of your blog, order by name. With this you can iterate and generate the typical tag list with links to each tag view.
Based on a Gaizka patch that has been ported to the current jekyll version. With this you can generate a summary for each of your posts. You must define a variable in each post view, called ‘extended’ with the marker that you will use to differenciate between the summary and the content:
title: New post
extended: ‘:myseparatortag:’
And then simply, in the body of your post, put your marker. Now when you call {{post.content}} in an iterator for example, it would return your excerpt, that is from the beginning of the post until the marker.
You can understand better all the new funcionality reading the tests and features or taking a look to the code of my jekyll blog
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