JekyllPageBoilerplate

A jekyll plugin that allows you to create new pages or posts from a boilerplate.

jekyll-compose might be the gem you are looking for.

gem 'jekyll-page-boilerplate'

$ bundle install

Or

$ gem install jekyll-page-boilerplate

Create a new jekyll page/post from a boilerplate.

Run $ boilerplate init to create an example file.

Create a new boilerplate file under the _boilerplates folder.

ie. _boilerplates/post.md

---
_boilerplate:           # The config for your boilerplates:
  path: _posts          # this is the folder path it will create your new post/page under. 
  timestamp: true       # when true new post/pages will include the date in the filename.
  title: Default Title  # You can provide a title here or with the -t option

title: {{ boilerplate.title }}   # -t or --title options
created: {{ boilerplate.time }}  # the current time.

layout: post      # Anything else in the file will be copied to your new post/page.
author: John Doe
---

A Jekyll Boilerplate Example

Run $ boilerplate BOILERPLATE_NAME 'MY POST TITLE'

ie $ boilerplate post 'Another one about pottery'

This will create a new file under _posts/yyyy-mm-dd-another-one-about-pottery.markdown

---
title: Another one about pottery
created: 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss -0000'

layout: post
author: John Doe
---

A Jekyll Boilerplate Example

The boilerplate will replace {{ boilerplate.xxx }} its own data.

• title as provided by the -t option or as provided in the _boilerplate header.
• name the name of the boilerplate (_boilerplates/posts.md > posts)
• suffix the file suffix (.md, .markdown, .txt)
• time the datetime the post was created at.
• date the date as used in the file timestamp
• file the filename of the new post
• path the folder to place the new file in. provided with the -p option or in the header.
• timestamp should it include a timestamp in the file name.
• random a random url safe base 64 string

you can also provide your own data in the _boilerplate header and use it in your document.

In the header file, path, slug will all accept wild cards

_boilerplate:
  file: '{{ chapter }}{{ slug }}{{ suffix }}'
  path: '_chapters/{{ volume }}'
  slug: '{{ title }}'
  volume: 1
  # Default ^^ replace with `bplate <page> volume=54`
  # the timestamp flag will override the file template.

To install your development version of the gem, clone the repo and add this to your Gemfile.

gem 'jekyll-page-boilerplate', :path => "path/to/repo/jekyll-page-boilerplate"

Use $ rake spec to run the tests.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.