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blueteeth
blueteeth

Reputation: 3555

Create multiple jekyll pages from yaml without using a plugin

I am working on a Jekyll site on and I want to be able to have a page for each person in the group. I know I can use a collections to generate pages, if the files in the collection are markdown. I want to be able to have yaml files in the collection, then generate pages after passing each yaml file to a template.

People files might look like this:

# person-1.yaml
name: thingy m. bob
position: coffee fetcher
bio: no bio needed

# person-2.yaml
name: mars e. pan
position: head honcho
bio: expert in everything

Then a template file like this (people-template.md):

# {{ page.name }} - {{ page.position }}
{{ page.bio }}

And the output would be individual file under /people/, i.e, /people/person-1, /people/person-2, which are formatted as in the template, but using the .yaml files.

I am using GitHub pages, so I don't want to have to use any plugins which that doesn't support.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1835

Answers (1)

Ruskin
Ruskin

Reputation: 6171

I have implemented something similar ... this is the setup I created:

- _Layouts
  - person.html
...
people
  - index.md (list of people - see code below)
  - _posts
    - 2015-01-01-person-one.md (ordering defined by date which is thrown away)
    - 2015-01-02-person-two.md
    - 2015-01-03-person-three.md
    ...

Then for a list of people you can use something like:

<ul>
{% for person in site.categories.people %}
    <li><a href="{{ person.url }}>{{ person.name}}"></a></li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

with each person being in the form

---
name: "thingy m. bob"
# using quotes to avoid issues with non-alpha characters
position: "coffee fetcher"
bio: "no bio needed"

layout: person
---

any markdown if you want more of a description

I hope that has given you something to start with ... I think that putting the _posts folder under the people folder will automatically set the category to people. If I am wrong, just add category: people to the yaml.

You can set the pattern for the post urls in _config.yaml if you want to remove the date part.

Good luck

Upvotes: 1

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