Jair Zheng's Blog

My Blog: jairzh.com

Create a new post

1. jekyll serve --watch

2. Add a .md file in _posts.

3. YAML front matter

   • featured post - featured:true
   • exclude featured post from “All Posts” loop to avoid duplicated posts - hidden:true
   • post image - image: assets/images/mypic.jpg
   • external post image - image: "https://externalwebsite.com/image4.jpg"
   • page comments - comments:true
   • meta description (optional) - description: "this is my meta description"

YAML Post Example:

---
layout: post
title:  "We all wait for summer"
author: john
categories: [ Jekyll, tutorial ]
image: assets/images/5.jpg
description: "Something about this post here"
---

YAML Page Example:

---
layout: page
title: Mediumish Template for Jekyll
comments: true
---

Rating:

---
layout: post
title:  "We all wait for summer"
author: john
categories: [ Jekyll, tutorial ]
image: assets/images/5.jpg
description: "Something about this post here"
rating: 4.5
---

Table of Contents:

---
layout: post
title:  "Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking."
author: john
categories: [ Jekyll, tutorial ]
image: assets/images/3.jpg
beforetoc: "Markdown editor is a very powerful thing. In this article I'm going to show you what you can actually do with it, some tricks and tips while editing your post."
toc: true
---