Jekyll - Generate pages for items in a collection (similar to posts)

Question

I'm making a website/blog that catalogs DIY projects, currently I have each project as a post, and recent posts are displayed on the home page.

• What Im trying to do is have a separate page with project/post categories (projects.html). This page lists a collection of post categories that manually I've made, and will not show any actual posts.

• I would then like these categories/collection items to be generated into a page that links to a layout where I can specify a FOR loop that will display each post specific to that category on the page.

I've tried many ways to generate pages from a collection of .md files as jekyll does for posts but I can't get this working. Is this possible to do? or is there a way to automatically generate an html page for every .md file in a folder?

Here is a link to the page I'm working with. http://happy-swallow.cloudvent.net/

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use Collections and specify to render each file in the collection folder as a page:

• tell Jekyll to render individual collection pages, in _config.yml:

  collections: 
      my_collection: 
          output: true
  

• Then create a folder named _my_collection (the folder name must start with an underscore) and every markdown file inside it will have a single page.