Octopress offers some rake tasks to create post and pages preloaded with metadata and according to Jekyll's naming conventions.
## Blog Posts
Blog posts must be stored in the `source/_posts` directory and named according to Jekyll's naming conventions: `YYYY-MM-DD-post-title.markdown`. The name of the file is
used as the slug for the url, and the date helps with file distinction and determines the sorting order for post loops.
Octopress provides a rake task to create new blog posts with the right naming conventions, with sensible yaml metadata.
The filename will determine your url. With the default [permalink settings](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Permalinks) the url would be something like
metadata for proper attribution on a post. If you are working on a draft, you can add `published: false` to prevent it from being posted when you generate your blog.
You can add pages anywhere in your blog source directory and they'll be parsed by Jekyll. The URL will correspond directly to the filepath, so `about.markdown` will become `site.com/about.html`. If you prefer the URL `site.com/about/` you'll want to create the page as `about/index.markdown`.
Octopress has a rake task for creating new pages easily.
Like with the new post task, the default file extension is `markdown` but you can configure that in the `Rakefile`. A freshly generated page might look like this:
The title is derived from the filename so you'll likely want to change that. This is very similar to the post yaml except it doesn't include categories, and you can toggle sharing and comments or remove the footer altogehter. If you don't want to show a date on your page, just remove it from the yaml.
