jekyll-nows

jonesbp

A Jekyll plugin (w/ associated layouts) for creating a simple bio site with archived iterations

Jekyll-Nows

Jekyll-Nows is a plugin that facilitates publishing a single-page personal bio site with an archive of updates using the not-yet-stable collections feature of Jekyll.

Setup

Copy the jekyll-nows.rb file to the _plugins directory of your project.

Copy the _layouts/now.html and _layouts/nows_index.html files to the _layouts directory of your project.

Edit your _config.yml file to include the following lines:

collections:
  - nows

Create a _nows directory in the root directory of your project.

Usage

Jekyll-Nows takes Markdown-formatted entries organized by date and formats them in its opinionated chronological archive style. These entries will be stored in the _nows directory. It is suggested that they have filenames in the format of YYYY-mm-dd.md, but any filenames will work.

Each ‘now’ entry has YAML topmatter with a single date element:

---
date: 2015-03-28
---

# Example

Here is an [example](http://example.com) entry.

Plans

I use this plugin to generate my own personal site and will continue to share improvements. My plan is to keep things simple and straightforward, but one planned expansion is to be able to display diffs between adjacent updates.

‘Nows’ in Use

I’d be very interested to hear about instances of using this style of biography archiving in the wild.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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