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HufflepuffBR
HufflepuffBR

Reputation: 463

Want to create another _post directory in jekyll

I want to create a author _layout that I could use to mount a list of all the author of a Jekyll powered site (in fact, a list of hosts of a podcast). I want this to be at

+ \
  + _posts
  + _includes
  + _layouts
  + _config.yml
  + authors <-- Here

In my Jekyll site, and I already saw that Jekyll render markdown files there.

However, I can't take the authors there and use it to build a list.

I'm using this code

<ul>
    {% for post in site.categories.authors %}
    <li><a href="{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

Any suggestion on how I should do what I want? I want the page to be generate to return the name of the hosts in a list, with links for each of them, like

<a href="/authors/foo">This guy</a>
<a href="/authors/bar">That guy</a>
<a href="/authors/baz">That other guy</a>

And the files to be rendered being at:

+ \
  + _posts
  + _includes
  + _layouts
  + _config.yml
  + authors
    + foo.md
    + bar.md
    + baz.md

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1034

Answers (1)

Virtua Creative
Virtua Creative

Reputation: 2113

If you want to use collections, you will need to configure them properly. But collections is useful when you need to add extra markdown files and you don't want them in _posts.

Check this answer if you want to go for collections.

But what I believe what you need is Jekyll _data, not collections.

To do so, create a folder called _data in the site root and add file called authors.yml into that.

Then, you add to authors.yml the data you want to call:

- ref: 01
  name: Name Surname
  url: http://something.com

- ref: 02
  name: Name Surname 2
  url: http://somethingelse.com

Then call them via liquid:

{% for author in site.data.authors %}
<a href="{{ author.url }}">{{ author.name }}</a>
{% endfor %}

I'm sorry if I misunderstood your question.... I really hope to have helped!

Upvotes: 2

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