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Justin L.
Justin L.

Reputation: 1030

Jekyll default yaml front-matter not accessible via liquid

On my personal site, I style the post list on my home page based on the post's category. So if I have the front matter:

---
layout: post
title:  "My Post"
date:   2016-01-26
category: code
---

Because the category is code, the div below will render to have a css class card-code and style the post excerpt accordingly.

  {% for post in site.posts %}
    <div class="col-1-2">

      <!-- This Line! -->
      <div class="paper-card card-{{ post.category }}">

         <!-- other code -->
      </div>
    </div>
  {% endfor %}

To try to make my life simpler, I set the default category for posts to be general in my _config.yml file:

default:
  -
    scope:
      path: ""
      type: "posts"
    values:
      category: "general"

However, {{ post.category }} comes up with nothing for these posts (i.e., card-). Any ideas why this ain't working?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

RobertKenny
RobertKenny

Reputation: 3596

Reading the documentation at Front Matter Defaults the section should be called defaults not default.

Try this in your _config.yaml

defaults:
  -
scope:
  path: ""
  type: "posts"
values:
  category: "general"

Upvotes: 1

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