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greystash
greystash

Reputation: 337

Can you define Jekyll config defaults from variables in another file?

I'm trying to do this because I'm using a CMS where users will be able to edit a data file to make changes to the page instead of the _config.yml. I'm wondering if it's possible to reference a variable from the data file and place this reference within the _config.yml.

Here's an example of what I'm trying to do;

Data File (/_data/site-data.yml)

navigation:
  navigation_colour: '#462634'

Config File (/_config.yml)

defaults:
  -
    values:
      navigation:
        navigation_colour: site.data.site-data.navigation.navigation-colour

Is something similar to this possible? Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2030

Answers (2)

SACn
SACn

Reputation: 1924

Jekyll does not parse variables in _config.yml. However inside your blog you can use liquid tags like {{site-data.navigation.navigation-colour}}. See here.

If its mandate to replace variables in _config.yml then use a custom or standard replacement plugin with grunt. So effective grunt build task will first perform token replacement in _config.yml and then do jekyll build.

Upvotes: 2

KargWare
KargWare

Reputation: 2183

You can assign at least in one config-file variables, I have not tested this over multiple files.

Variables inside YAML

YAML, hello will become Greetings earthling!

something: &hello Greetings earthling!
myref: *hello

MARKDOWN

{{ site.data.samplelist.myref }}

Upvotes: 1

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