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How can I make Jekyll use a layout without specifying it?
In order to keep some of my Jekyll sites simple, I'm always using the same layout. That is to say, I'm always writing something like. . .
---
layout: default
title: Here's my Title
---
. . . as the YAML Front Matter at the top of my pages.
What…
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How do I configure GitHub to use non-supported Jekyll site plugins?
I just created a great gallery for my Jekyll blog which builds perfectly on my localhost:4000. However, GitHub pages doesn't support the Jekyll Gallery Generator plug-in I am using: https://github.com/ggreer/jekyll-gallery-generator
I read about the…
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How to pass {% captured %} variable from a view to the layout in Jekyll/Liquid?
I am trying to rebuild a blog in Jekyll and I have stubled upon a simple task.
Provided I have the following set of templates:
default.html:
{{ head }}
{{ content }}
frontpage.html:
---
layout: default
---
{% capture head %}
Frontpage
{% end…
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Github pages: Why do I need a gh-pages
I have deployed a personal blog using Github pages and I see that some tutorials tell you to create a gh-pages branch. I did that, however, my changes to the website are visible only if I make changes to my master. So, I'm confused as to why I need…
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Static Comments System for Jekyll
My blog currently runs Jekyll and the Minimal Mistakes theme, and uses the theme's built in functionality to add the Disqus comments system.
This JavaScript-based commenting system, to me sort of defeats the purpose of having a static blog in…
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Jekyll filter for regex substitution in content?
Is there a Jekyll filter that will replace text using a regular expression (regex) filter?
I believe the "built-in" filter replace does simple string substitution.
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How to create a liquid tag extension which return filename in Jekyll
It's pretty basic stuff, I guess but I couldn't figure out how to do it.
What I want to do is very simple.
By using Jekyll plugin system, I want to extend Liquid tag to return filename of post.
{{% page.filename %}}
will parse to something…
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Jekyll Dependency Error when Upgrading from 2.x to 3.x
Following the official update guide, I recently upgraded from Jekyll 2.x to Jekyll 3.1.1.
After the installation, running jekyll serve produced the following error:
Dependency Error: Yikes! It looks like you don't have jekyll-markdown-block or one…
James Taylor
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How to get Markdown processed content in Jekyll tag plugin
I'm working on a Jekyll tag plugin for my Octopress site to help me make a 'note' element. I just want to be able to highlight a piece of information on my blog as a side note, like this.
The problem is, I can't figure out how to get the contents…
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Using octopress with emacs org-mode for blogging
Is there any example of using Org-mode with octopress for blogging? I want to use org-mode for all the blog posts and export it to html. I understand this is possible, is there any example for this to learn and do the same.
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Jekyll: How to pass a Ruby object to a template?
For example, say I'd like to generate this array:
random_numbers = []
1000.times { random_numbers << rand(2) }
And pass it to a template, so that I can access it from Liquid:
{% for num in random_numbers %}
... here I'd use logic around the…
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Show pages under one folder in Jekyll?
I think the native way of managing pages of Jekyll, i.e. by creating .md file / folders under the root folder, is a bit messy.
Thus I want to put, every page I want to show, into the folder called "pages". Additionally, I'd like these pages to have…
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Octopress can't build with Code Block
I try to do something like this Octopress code block
But I can't make it work.
It always shows the following error. My machine is Windows 7.
$ rake generate
## Generating Site with Jekyll
unchanged sass/screen.scss
Configuration from…
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Jekyll not interpreting markdown
I'm creating a site using jekyll.rb.
I have a page called about.html:
{% include about_content.markdown %}
In about_content.markdown I have some dummy markdown:
A First Level Header
====================
A…
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How to open URLs in new tab in config.yml of Jekyll / Github pages site?
I'm self-taught/totally new to Jekyll and Github Pages and was wondering how to go about opening a URL in a new tab with markdown in the config.yml page.
This is the website theme I'm using. I want the last 'github' link to open in a new tab,…
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