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M1ke
M1ke

Reputation: 6406

Set global variables inside a Jekyll template

I have the following defined in my Jekyll config matter:

dir: a-directory/

I now want to have:

dir: a-directory/
images: {{ dir }}images/

However this won't work. One solution is to place this in my template file

{% capture images %}{{ site.dir }}images/{% endcapture %}

The variable images is now available to other points in that file. However it isn't available to any content being compiled in with that file, e.g my actual pages.

Doing {% capture site.images %} would seem the way to sort that, but you can't assign items to the site or page globals outside of the _config and front matter respectively.

Is it possible to achive this kind of global variable stacking?

(please avoid solutions involving changing my directory structure; if there are similar compilers offering more features without a huge change to workflow I'm open)

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2466

Answers (1)

C. Augusto Proiete
C. Augusto Proiete

Reputation: 27908

It seems YAML doesn't directly support concatenation. There are a few workarounds, though:

Upvotes: 2

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