I have some Jekyll front matter:
---
layout: boilerplate
title: {{ site.data.products.meta_title }}
---
But the meta title from data is not output - how can I get it to be outputted?
No you cannot use liquid variables in front matter because front matter variables are not processed by Liquid.
Related
I'm using jekyll with GitHub pages for my blog. How can I display a short sentence right below my post title in the index/ home page? As an example, I am trying to write text between the red brackets:
example image
I've seen other posts on this site that ask a similar question, but they are very old and it seems that jekyll has changed since then. Any help would be appreciated.
If these are posts you should be able to use {{ post.excerpt }}. You can see more in the docs: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/posts/
If it's a page (and not a post) you'll need to use {{ page.content | truncatewords: 30 }}. See more in the docs: https://shopify.github.io/liquid/filters/truncatewords/
A note about page.content: if that page is HTML code you'll need to use the strip_html filter. If that page has liquid, there is no filter to strip that and you will need to add the excerpt to the front matter. Something like this:
---
title: This is a post title
description: This is a post description.
excerpt: This is the post excerpt.
---
{{ page.excerpt }}
I am building a hugo blog site and I have some front matter that I would like to get rendered in the layouts. When I view the results on my localhost:1313, I can see the front matter being populated, but when I host the site on Netlify, the front matter and partial files won't render.
I'm not sure what else to do. I've cleared the console of any errors, made sure my content files match the layout files etc.
Any help?
Here is the link to the live netlify site: https://stoic-meninsky-a5758a.netlify.app/
Here is my directory structure:
-content
-about
-_index.md
-blog
-_index.md
-post-1.md
-_index.md
-layouts
-_default
-baseOf.html
-about
-section.html
-blog
-section.html
-single.html
_index.html
This is a sample file that is pulled from one of my content markdown files:
---
title: "The Herman Show | Blog"
linktitle: "Blog"
draft: true
newsletter: "This is the newsletter"
---
This is how I call the front matter: <p>{{ .Params.newsletter }}</p>
This is how I loop over the section pages to get a navbar
{{ range .Site.Sections }}
<li>{{ .LinkTitle }}</li>
{{ end }}
Make sure your markdown files in the content directory are marked to: drafts:false
I'm starting to use jekyll, but when trying to customize a variable it does not work.
My code
---
layout: default
hello: "teste liquid"
---
<h1>{{ page.hello }}</h1>
but this don't work, it does not print anything in html, it leaves empty
do I need to do any additional configuration on jekyll?
I'm writing this because I had the same problem and I lost half a day trying to figure out what caused it.
When I installed jekyll and created a new site I got the following file by default: index.markdown with an empty front matter in it (two lines of three dashes each).
I also created an index.html file as the Jekyll tutorial suggested.
Apparently, if you have both files and you try to add front matter to the HTML file the whole site breaks and the default jekyll page is displayed instead of the index.html page.
The solution is to remove or rename the index.markdown file so the HTML file is the only index.
Note, that if you don't add front matter to the HTML page the HTML page is displayed normally (but, of course, the liquid tags {{ }} don't work)
Hope this help.
Thanks to virginiarcrz for pointing this solution out.
I had this issue. There was an extra space after toggling a comment '#' tag in the frontmatter of my index.md:
---
#title: index
title: index2
----
and I fixed it by removing the space:
---
#title: index
title: index2
----
This is my personal GH Pages site.
I have this set in my /_config.yml:
theme: jekyll-theme-cayman
title: iBug # GitHub
description: The small personal site for iBug
Now it shows a big title iBug # GitHub and a tagline on every page GH Pages generates. I want to set overrides for specific pages. I tried
---
title: Blog index
---
in /blog/index.html, but it doesn't work. It only changes the HTML title of the page (browser title bar), but not the "title" in the big block on the top of the page.
How do I set an override title for a single page?
Update: I have since submitted a pull request to change this in the theme, and the answer below is no longer necessary since it's already been applied when you use the theme as of now. All you need to do is to specify the title override in the front matter:
---
title: My custom title
---
To specify another title, you need to change the layout file.
Copy the default layout and place it in <GitHub repo>/_layouts/default.html, and change line 16 to this:
<h1 class="project-name">{{ page.title | default: site.title }}</h1>
Then Jekyll will respect the title set in the front matter, and place it there.
This is just the way this theme is implemented, if you check the default layout for Cayman theme on line 14 you can see what exact variable it is using.
<h1 class="project-name">{{ site.title | default: site.github.repository_name }}</h1>
Hope that helps!
My approach is using javascript as follows.
<script>
document.getElementsByClassName("project-name").item(0).innerText = "{{ page.title }}";
</script>
You can write a html file in _includes dir and use {% include your_file.html %}.
I want to use liquid tags in a page on a Jekyll site. I have used them successfully in layout files, but when I use them in a page they are not parsed by Liquid.
The page is in html format not Markdown. The page has valid YAML front-matter that is being successfully used by the layout file. Here's the code for the page that isn't parsing:
---
layout: default
title: Media
id: media
order: 2
---
<section id="photos">
<h2>Photographs</h2>
<div id="galleries">
{% for set in site.flickr-sets %}
<div class="gallery" data-set="{{ set }}"></div>
{% endfor %}
</div>
</section>
Is there any obvious reason why this isn't working? I really need to be able to access the site global variable...
EDIT
It seems this issue isn't confined to just that page. I tried creating a new page and using some liquid syntax and got the same result. It's also any liquid syntax not just tags.
In the layout file that these pages use I include the content of the page using {{ page.content }} rather than just {{ content }}. Could that be relevant?
{{ content }} works and it's different than {{ page.content }}
{{ content }} it's parsing all liquid syntax :)
Hope that helps.
So it seems that the answer is that as I suspected. I tested the same code using a new layout file that just called {{ content }} and it rendered correctly. I'm assuming this means that when Jekyll builds it stores raw content in the page object. This is why pages with only html (or Markdown) were being rendered correctly, but any Liquid syntax was not being parsed.
Although this technically answers the question, I still haven't figured out how to solve my problem! It would be useful if there was some sort of filter I could add to {{ page.content }} to make it parse the Liquid syntax.
I know this may be a little late, but I dug up something called {{ page.output }} which is the rendered content of the page.