3.1 KiB
| layout | title | date | sidebar | comments | footer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| page | Blogging Basics | July 19 2011 | false | false | false |
Create your first post.
rake new_post["hello world"]
This will put a new post with a name like like 2011-07-3-hello-world.markdown in the source/_posts directory.
The filename will determine your url, and depending on your permalink settings your url may end up looking like this
site.com/blog/20011/07/03/hello-world/index.html.
New post expects a title and attempts to strip out undesirable url characters when creating the filename.
rake new_post["Zombie Ninjas Attack: A survivor's retrospective"]
# Creates the file
source/_posts/2011-07-03-zombie-ninjas-attack-a-survivors-retrospective.markdown
The default file extension for new posts is markdown but you can configure that in the Rakefile.
Open up your post in a text editor and you'll see a block of yaml front matter
which tells Jekyll how to processes posts and pages.
---
layout: post
title: "Hello World"
date: 2011-07-03 5:59
comments: true
categories:
---
If you like, you can turn comments off, add categories for your post. Beneath the yaml block, go ahead and type up a sample post, or use some inspired filler. After you've saved that post you'll want to generate your blog.
Generate & Preview
rake generate # Generates posts and pages into the public directory
rake watch # Watches source/ and sass/ for changes and regenerates
rake preview # Watches, and mounts a webserver at http://localhost:4000
Jekyll's built in webbrick server is handy, but if you're a POW user, you can set it up to work with Octopress like this.
cd ~/.pow
ln -s /path/to/octopress
cd -
Now that you're setup with POW, you'll just run rake watch and load up http://octopress.dev instead.
Pages
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.
rake new_page[awesome]
# creates
/source/awesome/index.markdown
rake new_page[awesome/page.html]
# creates
/source/awesome/page.html
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:
---
layout: page
title: "Awesome"
date: 2011-07-03 5:59
comments: true
sharing: true
footer: true
---
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.