2012-01-29T09:41:24-08:00 http://engel.uk.to/ Hans Engel engel@engel.uk.to 2012-01-21T00:00:00-08:00 http://engel.uk.to/2012/01/21/jekyll-excerpts <p>There's a <a href="http://www.jacquesf.com/2011/03/creating-excerpts-in-jekyll-with-wordpress-style-more-html-comments/">fairly simple method</a> for creating WordPress-like post excerpts in Jekyll using a <code>&lt;!-- more --&gt;</code> tag, but unfortunately it requires the installation of a Jekyll plugin, a feature unavailable on a GitHub-hosted Jekyll instance.</p> <p>What's a bored geek like me to do? Find another way! <!-- more --> The exact same excerpt functionality linked to earlier can be replicated by composing a few <a href="https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/wiki/Liquid-for-Designers">Liquid filters</a> in the site layout code, like so:</p> <pre>&#123;{ post.content | split: '<!-- more -->' | first }}</pre> <p>This little bit of code will output the content of a post until it sees a <code>&lt;!-- more --&gt;</code> tag inside the post content. Just insert the <code>&lt;!-- more --&gt;</code> tag into your posts wherever you'd like them to be cut off.</p> <p>You can see this snippet in action in my <a href="/">site index template</a>.</p>