I'm trying to add a new page to my jekyll site and I declare the permalink like this:
permalink: /new-page/
But the new page ends up in mydomain.com/pages/new-page/ instead of mydomain.com/new-page/
This worked before, it must have happened after some jekyll update.
Any idea what might be wrong?
Thanks in advance
You must do it like this:
---
layout: default
title: Your website name
permalink: /about/
---
Oh I found the problem. I had forgot the closing markdown dashes (---) after the permalink.
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By default, Jekyll uses *.html, however, the program I use (Sublime Text 3) has an a package that adds Liquid syntax support but it will only auto detect and do the code suggestions if the file has the extension *.liquid. The other problem is, Jekyll is looking for default.html as well as the other layouts. How do I make Jekyll look for *.liquid files instead like default.liquid?
In the bottom right hand corner of sublime it will have the name of the filetype being used, for example 'HTML'. If you click this you can change it to liquid.
What worked for me is to rename files to *.liquid.html and then
update the front-matter to use the new name, e.g.,
Including abc.liquid.html in default.liquid.html
=== default.liquid.html ===
---
---
{% include file.liquid.html %}
Using layout default.liquid.html in a Blog Post
---
layout: default.liquid
title: "My post title"
date: 2021-01-24 19:00
---
I am trying to get post excerpts working in Jekyll. What's happening is that saying excerpt_separator: <!--more--> in the post's front matter works, but putting it in the _config.yml doesn't work.
Of course, I could do this for every post, but I'd rather get the global config working. :)
My config file:
baseurl: http://joycetipping.com/blog
excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
kramdown:
input: GFM
This works:
---
layout: post
title: Test!!
excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
---
Stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff.
More stuff, more stuff, more stuff, more stuff.
<!--more-->
Not in the excerpt, not in the excerpt, not in the excerpt.
This doesn't work:
---
layout: post
title: Test!!
---
Stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff.
More stuff, more stuff, more stuff, more stuff.
<!--more-->
Not in the excerpt, not in the excerpt, not in the excerpt.
I'm on Jekyll 3.1.2.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
A very basic question.
I can not find out how to refer or cite a post in a page.
If this is my post
---
layout: post
title: "Serve Jekyll Websites with servr and knitr"
categories: [jekyll, rstats]
tags: [knitr, servr, httpuv, websocket]
---
The R package [**servr**](https://github.com/yihui/servr) can be used to set up an HTTP server to serve files under a directory.
How I am suppose to cite it in my page
---
layout: page
title: About
permalink: /about/
---
You can find out more info in this post
Could you help me out ?
You can do this 2 ways:
Copy-pasting the link generated for your post as a link to it.
[Check Out My Post!](www.example.com/posts/2015-10-1-name-of-post/)
This definitely works, but will break/fail when you decide to change link style, or have another permalink, or when you change file names.
The smarter way: Jekyll's built in post_url
Jekyll has a built in function that allows you to internally link or cite back to posts on your website. Here is the documentation for it, but I will explain the syntax and usage as well.
Assuming you want to link to a Jekyll post with the filename of 2015-07-17-jekyll-servr-tutorial.md which is located in the _posts folder, the syntax for this would be:
{% post_url 2015-07-17-jekyll-servr-tutorial %}
{% post_url /tutorials/2015-07-17-jekyll-servr-tutorial %} if you have your posts organized in a subdirectory called tutorials
The R Package [servr]({% post_url 2015-07-17-jekyll-servr-tutorial %}) if you want to make hyperlinks.
There is no need to include the file extension name when using this liquid tag function.
Here is additional information and a tutorial on how to use Jekyll post-links that you might find useful as well.
I would like to use Jekyll to create a site. not a blog. Is there a way to avoid to have the creation date specified in the url and in the page's file name?
I think that the idea behind Jekyll is brilliant, but it seems too tied to blog generation content while it could be useful also in a more general use case.
In the _config file you can change the permalink to anything you like, for example mine is
permalink: /blog/:title
As for the date you can choose your own date using the YAML front matter, again in mine i have
title: example
date: you can pick what ever date you want
What the docs say:
You configure permalinks in your _config.yml file like this:
permalink: /:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title.html
If you don’t specify any permalink setting, Jekyll uses the above pattern as the default. The permalink can also be set using a built-in permalink style:
permalink: date
Although you can specify a custom permalink pattern using template variables, Jekyll also provides the following built-in styles for convenience.
date = /:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title.html
pretty = /:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title/
ordinal = /:categories/:year/:y_day/:title.html
none = /:categories/:title.html
Source: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/permalinks/
This is the basic setting I use:
permalink: pretty
This sets pages to the pretty permalink style. Thus '/contact.md' will become '/contact/'.
How I use it for blog posts:
permalink: /blog/:title/
This makes sure the path contains the (sluggified) title.
How I use it for collections:
permalink: /desiredpath/:name/
This makes sure the path contains the filename.
If you aren't producing blog pages, you can create files in the directory structure mapping to certain URLs. Running on localhost, if your directory has the structure
- _layouts/
- config.yml
- index.html
- some_other_page.html
- some_directory/
- index.html
- some_sub_page.html
You'll have content at the following locations after jekyll has processed the files:
0.0.0.0:4000 (index.html)
0.0.0.0:4000/some_other_page.html (some_other_page.html)
0.0.0.0:4000/some_directory (some_directory/index.html)
0.0.0.0:4000/some_directory/some_sub_page.html (some_directory/some_sub_page.html)
You can also use the permalink attribute on each post to set one manually, or set a different default in config.yml Permalinks only have a small subset of variables available to use and need to be defined in every single file you want to put in a non-standard location.
This directory structure will automatically categorize your posts too. So you can have:
- some_category (defined in the yaml front matter or the _config.yml
- index.html
- _posts/
- some_post.md
- some_other_post.md
And posts will automatically have the category 'some category', and index.html will appear at 0.0.0.0:4000/some-category, with the default permalink format. The category variable is available as :category in the permalink format string.
I came across this old question while looking for a way to organize jekyll pages in a _pages directory, similarly to _posts. then access this pages without displaying the whole path in the url.
The approach that worked better for me, is to use jekyll collections as follows:
1 - Add a pages collection in _config.yml :
collections:
pages:
output: true
permalink: /:path/
2 - create a new directory named _pages (it should have the same collection name, prefixed by _)
3 - add the pages in the _pages folder, as .md or .html files starting with YAML Front Matter.
eg. /_pages/about.md will looks like:
---
layout: page
---
<!-- about page content -->
after building that, the URL of the about page will be <your-web-site>/about .
Alternatively, to display a collection name, you have to define its permalink as:
permalink: /:collection/:path/
What I'm trying to do is get all my posts to have the following format: domain.com/blog/title.
However, in my _posts folder I have a file named 2010-07-11-hello.markdown and it contains the following:
---
title: Hello
permalink: /blog/:title/
---
Hello World!
What am I doing wrong? The permalinks aren't being converted. For example, the URL looks like this: http://localhost:4000/blog/:title/ and I want the actual title to show up there.
You should move the permalink setting into the _config.yml file as described at http://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/