I am trying to generate category pages for my github pages blog using jekyll. When i run locally using jekyll serve this works because it can use my plugin.
Using this example from the docs doesn't work because github will not generate custom plugins:
module Jekyll
class CategoryPage < Page
def initialize(site, base, dir, category)
@site = site
@base = base
@dir = dir
@name = 'index.html'
self.process(@name)
self.read_yaml(File.join(base, '_layouts'), 'category_index.html')
self.data['category'] = category
category_title_prefix = site.config['category_title_prefix'] || 'Category: '
self.data['title'] = "#{category_title_prefix}#{category}"
end
end
class CategoryPageGenerator < Generator
safe true
def generate(site)
if site.layouts.key? 'category_index'
dir = site.config['category_dir'] || 'categories'
site.categories.each_key do |category|
site.pages << CategoryPage.new(site, site.source, File.join(dir, category), category)
end
end
end
end
end
However, it would work if I could generate my own pages that are not in the _site directory. I would then check these in as "regular" pages even though they are generated by the system.
Is there any way to generate category pages outside of the _site directory with jekyll?
A) You can write custom scripts (shell or Ruby or whatever) to generate files anywhere using file I/O operations. In your above example, instead of adding new pages to the site, you can write out files with front-matter into your project directory. For example (Ruby):
open('somepath/#{category}/index.html', 'w') { |f|
f << "---\n"
f << "key: #{variable}\n"
f << "---\n"
}
And of course, you have to run it locally, before pushing the project to GitHub.
B) Or you can render your Jekyll site locally and push only the _site contents to GitHub. You can then use any plugin you need. You have to create a .nojekyll file in the project root to bypass Jekyll processing on GitHub, and you have to add it to Jekyll's includes as well (in _config.yml):
include: - .nojekyll
Then you can render the site (jekyll build) and push contents of _site directory to GitHub. You can automate this step with a little shell script.
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