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rocambille

Reputation: 15996

Jekyll issue with overlapping scopes in _config.yml

I have an issue using scopes in my _config.yml file:

In a multilingual blog, I want to use a given layout for all posts, and then customize permalinks for each language with a more specialized scope. Here is my configuration:

defaults:
    -
        # defaults for all files in the project
        scope:
            path: ""
        values:
            layout: my-page-layout
    -
        # defaults for all posts in the project
        scope:
            path: ""
            type: posts
        values:
            layout: my-post-layout
    -
        # defaults for all english posts in the project
        scope:
            path: en
            type: posts
        values:
            permalink: /en/:year/:month/:title/
    -
        # defaults for all french posts in the project
        scope:
            path: fr
            type: posts
        values:
            permalink: /fr/:year/:month/:title/

English posts under the path en effectively have the right layout (my-post-layout), but not the french posts under the path fr which have the default layout (my-page-layout).

Looks like the scope corresponding to the pair "fr/posts" overrides the default values for all posts, while this is not the case for the scope corresponding to the pair "en/posts".

What am I missing?

EDIT:

The directory structure of my jekyll project looks like this (I removed unrelevant files):

./
├──_layouts/
│  ├──my-page-layout.html
│  └──my-post-layout.html
│
├──en/
│  ├──_posts/
│  │  └──2016-12-01-my-post-in-english.md
│  │
│  └──my-page-in-english.html
│
├──fr/
│  ├──_posts/
│  │  └──2016-12-01-mon-post-en-français.md
│  │
│  └──ma-page-en-français.html
│
└──_config.yml

Upvotes: 0

Views: 128

Answers (1)

David Jacquel
David Jacquel

Reputation: 52829

Edit :

Reading from your code :

defaults:
    -
        scope:
            path: ""
        values:
            layout: wasthishelpful-page
            lang: en
    -
        scope:
            path: fr
        values:
            lang: fr
    -
        scope:
            path: ""
            type: posts
        values:
            layout: wasthishelpful-post
    -
        scope:
            path: en/_posts
        values:
            permalink: /en/:year/:month/:title/
    -
        scope:
            path: fr/_posts
        values:
            permalink: /fr/:year/:month/:title/

And from jekyll code, we can see that we have a precedence problem.

The second rule applies to /fr path, but will not be overriden by third rule that applies to / path.

The solution is to declare your third rule before the second one by inverting them.

defaults:
    -
        scope:
            path: ""
        values:
            layout: wasthishelpful-page
            lang: en
    -
        scope:
            path: ""
            type: posts
        values:
            layout: wasthishelpful-post
    -
        scope:
            path: fr
        values:
            lang: fr
    ...

Upvotes: 1

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