# Using jekyll postfiles plugin for collections
**URL:** https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/using-jekyll-postfiles-plugin-for-collections/1038
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [October 2, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/using-jekyll-postfiles-plugin-for-collections/1038 "2017-10-02T12:02:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@hnaseri](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/hnaseri)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/using-jekyll-postfiles-plugin-for-collections/1038/1 "2017-10-02T12:02:12Z")
I’m using a plugin named [jekyll postfiles](https://github.com/nhoizey/jekyll-postfiles) to handle assets beside my docs. The problem is that this plugin currently only supports posts. And I want to also use the same approach for my collections. With a little research I found that posts are also a kind of collection. And all posts and collection docs can be accessed by
```
`site.collections`
```
which is organized in the following manner:
```auto
{
"posts" => # < Jekyll::Collection @label = posts docs = [All Posts are here] > , "myfirstcollection" => # < Jekyll::Collection @label = myfirstcollection docs = [All myfirstcollection docs are here] >
}
```
I realize that in this plugin, there is a loop to iterate all post docs :
```
site.posts.docs.each do |post|
copy_post_files(post)
end
```
Now I think with a little tweak here we can also handle collection docs. However I have no experience with ruby and I don’t know what to do.
any Idea?
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/using-jekyll-postfiles-plugin-for-collections/1038/2 "2017-10-15T12:02:07Z")
Given that you have a `copy_collection_files` function defined, you can to the same accessing `site.collections.docs`
```ruby
site.collections.docs.each do | collection |
copy_collection_files(collection)
end
```
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### Author:  [@hnaseri](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/hnaseri)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2017, 9:16am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/using-jekyll-postfiles-plugin-for-collections/1038/3 "2017-10-23T09:16:16Z")
Yes. I already have done it and its working. However there is still a problem that I discussed [here](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/6410). The problem is that jekyll core also transfer collection files, but to a diffrent place. And now I have too many duplicate files in my website.
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### Author:  [@CraigChamberlain](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/CraigChamberlain)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/using-jekyll-postfiles-plugin-for-collections/1038/4 "2020-07-25T14:59:36Z")
Hi hnaseri, maybe too late to reply but I think you can set collections to not automatically generate pages in the \_config.yml file.
I’ve been trying to access collections from a plugin.You post has given me an idea.