Jekyll Poster

Features

• Creates markdown files formatted for Jekyll with correct filename (YEAR-MONTH-DAY-TITLE.md)
• Removes the hassle of manually creating your post files
  • Just fill out the information and presto!
• Runs "bundle exec jekyll build" on script completion

Features yet to come

• Formatting options for the post body DONE - Currently the script only allows for basic text input, future versions will be able to use any markdown formatting
• Choose between post for today or a future post DONE
• Jekyll build on script complete DONE
• Timezone variable DONE

How to use

• Change $jekyllPath and $jekyllPostPath to match your Jekyll blog
• Change time and timezone offset (default at the moment is +0200) as required
• Run the script (i.e. bash jekyll_poster.sh) and fill out the information!
• Make final edits to the body
• Hit Enter
• ????
• PROFIT!!!

If you use this all I ask is please leave in the credit at the end! Thanks, and happy blogging!

Jekyll Poster in action

Result