Hey guys, This is my first post. I’m new to Jekyll, Git and blogging in general. I’m trying to create a markdown file that allows me to modify the permalink by using what’s stored inside another variable from the YAML front matter block, here’s an example: --- layout: post title: Title Page c…

Looks like a duplicate of [image] How do you make Jekyll execute Liquid variables in front matter Help Hi, I’m trying to call Liquid values into my layout/include front matter. But usually Jekyll outputs it raw without executing it. Say I got --- title: Welcome to {{ si…

Thanks, but I’ve already found a workaround for my particular problem by simply not having the need to use liquid tags inside of the YAML front matter block. Although, it would be nice to know more about whether this was an intentional design feature or not.

I haven’t tested this, but looking at the entry on permalinks in Jekyll docs, the following should be a way to achieve what you’re trying without using Liquid: --- title: My title slug: custom-slug permalink: /:slug/:title --- As explained in the docs, if you don’t override the slug variable with …

Yes that will work. Avoiding setting per post. Set it under config for the posts collection. [image] Permalinks Permalinks are the output path for your pages, posts, or collections. They allow you to structure the directories of your source code different from the directories in your out…

If you want to use a custom slug for one post, you can use --- title: My post permalink: /blog/my-custom-name.html --- But… note that the typical Jekyll behavior is to use the post filename to set the output url. 2020-01-01-my-post.md # becomes /2020/01/01/my-post.html And so avoid an anti pa…

See this answer on alias in yaml [image] Is it possible to assign one variable in _config.yml to another? In _config.yml, I’d like to do something like this: description: >- some really long description bio: {{ description }} In other words, I just want bio t…

Hi, I am new to jekyll but I quickly ran into the desire to have liquid variable in the front matter and I stumbles on this which worked for the title and other variable. However I would like o flatify the date and it’s giving me an error I am presuming because of the % sign in column 48 of line 4. …

[image] meldarionqeusse: caption: "{{site.images}}{{ page.date | date: "%Y%m%d" }}_" --- Your syntax error YAML may be because you have double quotes on the inside and outside so you should do "foo 'bar'" with single quotes for example. Separately, you cannot use Liquid filters like that in …

Consider also using an includes file as a function you can call. _includes/my-images.html {{ site.images }}{{ page.date | date: "%Y%m%d" }}_ Then use as --- title: ... date: ... --- Here is my caption: {% include my-images.html %} Note that page.date will be picked up within the includes. Y…

Hi Michael, Your answer requires a small correction. the “include” parameter data is exposed via variable include instead of includes.

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