Jekyll Titles from Content

A Jekyll plugin to pull the page title from the first few words of the first line of the content if a title isn't set.

What it does

If you have a Jekyll page that doesn't have a title specified in the YAML Front Matter, this plugin instructs Jekyll to use that first few words of the content as the page's title.

Why

Because lots of plugins and templates rely on page.title. This doesn't play nicely with micro blogging which doesn't require a title.

Usage

1. Add the following to your site's Gemfile:

gem 'jekyll-titles-from-content'

2. Add the following to your site's config file:

plugins:
  - jekyll-titles-from-content

Note: If you are using a Jekyll version less than 3.5.0, use the gems key instead of plugins.

Configuration

Configuration options are optional and placed in _config.yml under the titles_from_content key. They default to:

titles_from_content:
  enabled:     true    # Easily toggle the plugin from your configuration.
  words:       5       # The number of words to use for the title.
  collections: false   # Apply the plugin to collections. Posts are collections.
  dotdotdot:   ""      # The character(s) you'd like to append to truncated titles.

Processing Collections

If you want to enable this plugin for collection items, set the collections option to true.

Since collection items (including posts) already have a title inferred from their filename, this option changes the behavior of this plugin to override the inferred title.

Disabling

Even if the plugin is enabled (e.g., via the :jekyll_plugins group in your Gemfile) you can disable it by setting the enabled key to false.

Credit

This plugin is heavily inspired by the jekyll-titles-from-headings plugin.