Finding asset (and other) orphans

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Dear Jekyll community:

This is my first post after using Jekyll for a year, thank you for a wonderful tool! Several hundred pages are now handled by Jekyll in a very organised manner, especially my illusion pages


and I have successfully created plugins. Now comes the question: In DreamWeaver, which I formerly used, there were ways to search for orphans in the sense of assets (e.g. images) not referenced anywhere. I have not found any automated way to do this – suggestions please?

Looking forward to any advice,
best regards, Michael

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I don’t think there is anything in jekyll to can do that, but you could probably use gulp to do it, a quick google search found:

I use gulp to build my site and handle all assets, works really well and make jekyll quicker. Though it can be complicated.

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Wow, thank you, that was fast AND helpful. So gulp seems to be a javascript library that I can run in node. Ok, will have to look into that in detail.

Thanks again, best, Michael

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Another way to test for unused files is to use a web-crawler like wget to download a site and compare it with _site/ – any difference means that some files are unused. Here’s an example Makefile rule to do this test:

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That’s a neat idea, and with code! Thank you. Best, Michael