Probably a dumb question - I’m trying to get the first and last post for my site. I’m using this to capture the posts: {% capture lastPost %}{{ site.posts | first }}{% endcapture %} {% capture firstPost %}{{ site.posts | last }}{% endcapture %} But if I {{lastPost.title}} I get nothing. I then not…

Oh and even simpler are first and last . Use dot notation and you can access the entire object. In your case {{ site.posts.first.title }} and {{ site.posts.last.title }} will get the title of the first and last posts. You can replace title with any variable available in the post’s YAML Front Matter……

And duh - now I see it. I’m rendering the page. Sigh. So let me say this - I was able to output the last page title and date like so: {{ site.posts[0].title }} ({{ site.posts[0].date | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }}) But every attempt to get the last value of site.posts has failed for me. I tried site.posts[…

I’ve tried this to get the “last index”: {% capture lastdx %}{{ site.posts.size | minus: 1 }}{% endcapture %} if I output lastdx, I get 61. If I do: {{ site.posts[lastdx].title } I get nothing. If I change lastdx to a hard coded value of 61, it works.

Not tested, but I think capture assigns the variable as a string, which could explain why it’s not working since it expects a number. Maybe try filtering lastdx with something like {{ lastdx | abs }} before you try to call it on site.posts to convert the string to a number.

You could also use assign which might be cleaner. {% assign lastdx = site.posts.size | minus: 1 %}

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raymondcamden July 17, 2018, 1:19am 7

Awesome - all of these answers helped me learn a bit. Thank you!

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