Useful Jekyll Scripts

This repository contains a collection of Ruby scripts designed to assist with common tasks when managing a Jekyll blog. These scripts help ensure your posts, redirects, and dates are consistent and correctly formatted.

Scripts

1. update_redirect_pages.rb

[!NOTE]

This script is particularly useful if you host your Jekyll site on Cloudflare Pages and need to manage redirects for any reason.

This script scans through your Jekyll posts and updates any outdated or improperly formatted slugs in the _redirects file.

Features:

• Sanitizes slugs to remove invalid characters.
• Generates 301 redirects for any posts with updated slugs.
• Outputs a list of redirects found and writes them to the _redirects file.

Usage:

• Update the BASE_URL and FILE_PATH in the script.
• Execute the script

  ./scripts/update_redirect_pages.rb
  

2. check_inconsistent_dates.rb

This script checks for inconsistencies between the date in a post's filename and the date specified in its YAML front matter.

Features:

• Compares the date from the filename with the date in the front matter.
• Reports any inconsistencies found.

Usage:

./scripts/check_inconsistent_dates.rb

3. Check Redirects

[!NOTE]

This script is also particularly useful if you host your Jekyll site on Cloudflare Pages and need to verify that redirects are working correctly.

This script verifies the redirects in your _redirects file by making HTTP requests to the original URLs and checking the response codes.

Features:

• Makes requests to the original routes to ensure they redirect as expected.
• Reports any mismatches in status codes or errors encountered.

Usage:

./scripts/check_redirects.rb

How to Use

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/keshavbiswa/useful_jekyll_scripts.git
cd jekyll-utilities

2. Make the scripts executable:

chmod +x scripts/*

3. Run the scripts as needed.

Contributing

Feel free to add new ones or improve existing!