--- title: "Further Jekyll notes" date: 2011-06-08T17:46:00-07:00 url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2011/06/08/further-jekyll-notes/ author: Les Orchard tags: [jekyll, metablogging, github] --- # Further Jekyll notes **TL;DR**: This is an in-progress entry, where I plan to collect some notes on how I've set up and am using Jekyll. I may call it "done" at some random point and publish it. I may even subsequently update it from time to time, after that. * To speed up the authoring / previewing cycle on my laptop, I move all but this years' posts into a `_posts_archived` folder and don't commit the change. * Kind of a pain; feels like I'm Doing It Wrong. * [Github Pages][pages] seems interesting, but I don't think it's right for me. * My plugins don't run, so my tag pages aren't created. * [davedash][] has a different approach for this, though. * I can't get the permalinks just the way I like them * I'd have to set a `CNAME` in my DNS to point at a subdomain (ie. `blog.decafbad.com`), because I don't want to delegate my entire root domain over to GitHub. * I would 100% totally use [GitHub Pages][pages] for another project that I'm starting from scratch, though. * Since related posts via LSI is such a bear, I may try doing something with tags. That is: * take all the tags from a post; * find the 5 latest posts for each tag; * display the unique set of posts * I want my permalinks to look like `/2011/06/08/slug` * Not `/2011/06/08/slug/` or `/2011/06/08/slug.html` * Look, ma, no trailing slash! * This is the way I've had my URLs for years, and I want to maintain my URLspace. * And I also don't want every URL missing a trailing slash to get bounced with a `301 Moved Permanently` to the equivalent *with* a trailing slash. That's bogus. * So, I'm using the `pretty` permalinks setting, and I have this in my nginx config: * `if (-f $request_filename/index.html) { rewrite ^(.+)$ $1/index.html last; }` [pages]: http://pages.github.com/ [davedash]: https://github.com/davedash/davedash.github.com

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