Jekyll::Compose

Streamline your writing in Jekyll with some commands.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'jekyll-compose', group: [:jekyll_plugins]

And then execute:

$ bundle

After you have installed (see above), run bundle exec jekyll help and you should see:

Listed in help you will see new commands available to you:

  draft      # Creates a new draft post with the given NAME
  post       # Creates a new post with the given NAME
  publish    # Moves a draft into the _posts directory and sets the date
  unpublish  # Moves a post back into the _drafts directory
  page       # Creates a new page with the given NAME
  rename     # Moves a draft to a given NAME and sets the title
  compose    # Creates a new file with the given NAME

Create your new page using:

    $ bundle exec jekyll page "My New Page"

Create your new post using:

    $ bundle exec jekyll post "My New Post"
    # or specify a custom format for the date attribute in the yaml front matter
    $ bundle exec jekyll post "My New Post" --timestamp-format "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z"

    # or by using the compose command
    $ bundle exec jekyll compose "My New Post"

    # or by using the compose command with post specified
    $ bundle exec jekyll compose "My New Post" --post

    # or by using the compose command with the posts collection specified
    $ bundle exec jekyll compose "My New Post" --collection "posts"

Create your new draft using:

    $ bundle exec jekyll draft "My new draft"

    # or by using the compose command with draft specified
    $ bundle exec jekyll compose "My new draft" --draft

    # or by using the compose command with the drafts collection specified
    $ bundle exec jekyll compose "My new draft" --collection "drafts"

Rename your draft using:

$ bundle exec jekyll rename _drafts/my-new-draft.md "My Renamed Draft"

# or rename it back
$ bundle exec jekyll rename _drafts/my-renamed-draft.md "My new draft"

Publish your draft using:

    $ bundle exec jekyll publish _drafts/my-new-draft.md

    # or specify a specific date on which to publish it
    $ bundle exec jekyll publish _drafts/my-new-draft.md --date 2014-01-24
    # or specify a custom format for the date attribute in the yaml front matter
    $ bundle exec jekyll publish _drafts/my-new-draft.md --timestamp-format "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z"

Rename your post using:

$ bundle exec jekyll rename _posts/2014-01-24-my-new-draft.md "My New Post"

# or specify a specific date
$ bundle exec jekyll rename _posts/2014-01-24-my-new-post.md "My Old Post" --date "2012-03-04"

# or specify the current date
$ bundle exec jekyll rename _posts/2012-03-04-my-old-post.md "My New Post" --now

Unpublish your post using:

    $ bundle exec jekyll unpublish _posts/2014-01-24-my-new-draft.md

Create your new file in a collection using:

    $ bundle exec jekyll compose "My New Thing" --collection "things"

To customize the default plugin configuration edit the jekyll_compose section within your jekyll config file.

  jekyll_compose:
    auto_open: true

and make sure that you have EDITOR, VISUAL or JEKYLL_EDITOR environment variable set. For instance if you wish to open newly created Jekyll posts and drafts in Atom editor you can add the following line in your shell configuration:

export JEKYLL_EDITOR=atom

JEKYLL_EDITOR will override default EDITOR or VISUAL value. VISUAL will override default EDITOR value.

If you wish to add default front matter to newly created posts or drafts, you can specify as many as you want under default_front_matter config keys, for instance:

jekyll_compose:
  default_front_matter:
    drafts:
      description:
      image:
      category:
      tags:
    posts:
      description:
      image:
      category:
      tags:
      published: false
      sitemap: false

This will also auto add:

• The creation timestamp under the date attribute.
• The title attribute under the title attribute

For collections, you can add default front matter to newly created collection files using default_front_matter and the collection name as a config key, for instance for the collection things:

jekyll_compose:
  default_front_matter:
    things:
      description:
      image:
      category:
      tags:

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-compose/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Run the specs and our linter (script/cibuild)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request

When submitting a pull request that uses code from an unmerged pull request, please be aware of the following:

• Changes proposed in the older pull request is still the original author's property. Moving forward from where they left it means that you're a co-author.
• GitHub allows attributing credit to multiple authors However, pull requests in this project are automatically squashed and then merged onto the base branch. So, only authors and co-authors of the opening commit gets credit once the pull request gets merged.
• If the original pull request contained multiple commits, you may squash them into a single commit but ensure that you list any additional authors (and yourselves) as co-authors of that commit.
• Use appropriate keywords in your pull request post to link to the existing pull request or issue-ticket so that they're automatically closed when your pull request gets merged.