Liquid variable inside jekyll include parameter - html

I have a jekyll partial in _includes which wraps a coloured div around its content. The partial (callout.html) looks like this:
<div markdown="1" class="callout">
{{ include.content }}
</div>
And I call it in test.md like this:
{% include callout.html content="Content to be filled with a URL: {{ site.baseurl }}/img/test.png" %}
However, this causes Liquid to throw an error:
Liquid Exception: Invalid syntax for include tag: ...
" Valid syntax: {% include file.ext param='value' param2='value' %} in
bundler: failed to load command: jekyll (/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/bin/jekyll)
I believe the issue is due to my inclusion of {{ site.baseurl }} in the content parameter.
How can I get around this restriction?

https://jekyllrb.com/docs/includes/#passing-parameter-variables-to-includes
I found the answer in the Jekyll documentation soon after posting.
The value of the content parameter should be stored as a variable separately before passing it to the include, using capture. For the example above:
{% capture callout_content %}
Content to be filled with a URL: {{ site.baseurl }}/img/test.png
{% endcapture %}
{% include callout.html content=callout_content %}

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Using variables in conditional expressions in if-statements in Jekyll (with Liquid)

I am trying to make a website using Jekyll as a local test for github-pages.
I wrote like the following within my _layouts/default.html, but it seemed that ‘{{ category.name }}’ in the if statement was not recognized as a variable. Can’t we use variables in condition in Jekyll?
{% for category in site.categories %}
{% if page.dir contains ‘{{ category.name }}’ %}
<a href="{{ category.url }}">
{{ category.name }}
</a>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
I referred to these manual:
collection
navigation & include
You do not need to put a variable inside double curly braces when evaluating a expression in tags. You simply need to do:
{% if page.dir contains category.name %}

Jekyll: Previous/Next navigation when using custom navigation

The official Jekyll tutorial has an entire section on using a YAML file to define a custom sequence of pages: https://jekyllrb.com/tutorials/navigation/
But it doesn't mention anywhere how one might create previous/next navigation buttons on the pages within that sequence, which is particularly ironic considering that the tutorial itself has them.
I've come up with some Liquid to determine the index of the current page:
{% for item in site.data.encore.docs %}
{% if item.url != page.url %}
{{ item.title }}: {{ forloop.index }}
{% else %}
<strong> This page index: {{ forloop.index }}</strong>
{% assign this_page_index = forloop.index %}
{% break %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
but getting the index of the previous page via {% decrement this_page_index %} always returns -1 for some reason, and something like {% assign previous = this_page_index - 1 %} isn't valid Liquid. Same goes for trying to get the next page with similar methods.
What's the ideal way to accomplish this? I've searched every way I can think of and not found anything.
You can find the code for Jekyll's own navigation on their tutorials page by sifting through their GitHub repo until you get to their section_nav_tutorials.html, but it appears the way to do it is very close to what you have.
Liquid doesn't respect you doing math directly, you have to use a filter. For you, you'd use {% assign previous = this_page_index | minus: 1 %}.

Posts not showing correctly on jekyll (multiple site) blog -- only post code

I have a personal website built with jekyll and hosted on Github pages. I am trying to add a sub-site blog within the same domain. For this, I set up a blog.md page and followed the instructions from this website: https://www.garron.me/en/blog/multi-blog-site-jekyll.html. The idea is that if I access http://<mydomain>.com it will go to my personal website, and if I go to http://<mydomain>.com/blog it will go to a different site also set up with jekyll.
My file structure is different than what they suggest in the link above. It is like this:
/personalwebsite
config.yml
index.md
(other personal website pages).md
blog.md
/_site
/_layouts
/_posts
My index.md page is completely customized, and I wrote my own layout for that website. It is a static site and everything in _posts is ignored by it. My blog.md page is also on the root folder and it changes according to _config.yml. I am trying to use Github jekyll themes for it. The theme loads, but instead of showing the posts, it shows the code:
This is what blog.md looks like:
---
layout: blog
title: the blog
permalink: blog
---
{% raw %}
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% if post.categories contains 'blog' %}
<div class="post">
<h3 class="title">{{ post.title }}</h3>
<p class="meta">Date: {{ post.date }}</p>
<div class="entry">
{{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords: 100 }}
</div>
</div>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{% endraw %}
And this is what a post looks like:
---
layout: post
title: New test
category: blog
---
This is a test post
If I remove the {% raw %} parts in blog.md, the posts show up like this:
I have already checked that my posts are in the right place, the category parameter is filled in, the dates and post filenames are properly formatted. What am I doing wrong? Jekyll does not show any error messages other than a Github metadata warning:
GitHub Metadata: No GitHub API authentication could be found. Some fields may be missing or have incorrect data
blog.md is a markdown file.
In markdown a four space indentation represents code or preformatted text.
Kramdown will wrap this code in <pre> tag, resulting on what you actualy see on your site.
If you remove your indentation (or keep it under 4 spaces), your problem is solved.
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% if post.categories contains 'blog' %}
<div class="post">
<h3 class="title">{{ post.title }}</h3>
<p class="meta">Date: {{ post.date }}</p>
<div class="entry">
{{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords: 100 }}
</div>
</div>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}

Get page variable from post variable in Jekyll?

I'm iterating over all the posts in my site like so
{% for post in site.posts %}
// code
{% endfor %}
I want to access some variable that I have stored at the page level. How can access it? I wasn't able to find anything after googling for awhile. I want to do something like
{% for post in site.posts %}
post.page.special_var
{% endfor %}
Jekyll support both post and page, so it is depend on you, which type of variable you want to access.
For example here is your post front matter.
---
layout:post
title: jekyll test
categories: jekyll
---
So in head.html, I am using this.
<title>{% if page.title %}{{ page.title }}{% endif %}</title>
I am using page to access that variable because there are too many pages like about or contact or privacy policy that does not belongs to jekyll post,so there you can't use post for example post.title to access that variable.
Now, look out these codes
{% for post in site.categories.jekyll reversed limit:10 %}
<span><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title}}<a/></span>
{% endfor %}
Here you note that, I am using loop, because I want to access same variable from multiple post, and that variable was jekyll .
Here I am using post.title but you can even use page.title, because it is globally accessible.
For fun :
I am using reversed, so you can order your post in which date you are created, older post will show at first.
I am using limit:10 because, I want to show only 10 post per page.
If you have a special_var variable defined in a post front matter you can get it like this :
{% for post in site.posts %}
<p>This is my var {{ post.special_var }}.</p>
{% endfor %}
See Jekyll documentation here.

Jekyll code in jekyll

I'm creating a bird's eye view tutorial for Jekyll, to be hosted on Github pages (on my blog that runs on Jekyll). So, I want to put some code there. If I put the following:
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% if post.categories contains '<categoryname>' %}
<h2>
{{ post.title }}
</h2>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
(all lines after tabspaces), it doesn't render as code, rather, it executes. How do I stop it from executing and render it as code?
The {%...%} syntax used by Jekyll is part of the Liquid templating engine. To escape these tags, and so show them literally, you should use the raw tag.
You will probably want to combine this with the markdown syntax for code blocks. With Redcarpet you can use the triple backtick syntax. It doesn’t matter if you put the backticks inside the raw tags or the other way round:
{%raw%}
```
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% if post.categories contains '<categoryname>' %}
<h2>
{{ post.title }}
</h2>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
```
{%endraw%}
Enclose your code in backticks:
(tested with redcarpet markdown engine)
```
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% if post.categories contains '<categoryname>' %}
<h2>
{{ post.title }}
</h2>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
```
There are at least three options exist, taht you can use to format code in Jekyll:
highlight - Jekyll has built in
{% highlight java %}
ValidationResult validationResult = NetLicensing.LicenseeService.validate(context, licenseeNumber);
{% endhighlight %}
example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Labs64/netlicensing.io/gh-pages/_drafts/2010-09-16-post-template.md (see Syntax highlighting section)
backtick - GitHub style
```java
ValidationResult validationResult = NetLicensing.LicenseeService.validate(context, licenseeNumber);
```
HTML pre/code - HTML can be included in markdown as well
<pre><code>
ValidationResult validationResult = NetLicensing.LicenseeService.validate(context, licenseeNumber);
<code/></pre>