After a few hours work, a static bicrement site is up now :D.

These are some tips and snippets on Jekyll, which I spent some time figured out in the process.

Display previous/next post

You can use page.next and page.previous to access the previous and next posts (it does not work for pages).

{% assign previous = page.previous %}
{% if previous.url %}
  <a href="{{previous.url}}" title="Previous Post: {{previous.title}}">&laquo; {{previous.title}}</a>
{% endif %}

{% assign next = page.next %}
{% if next.url %}
  <a href="{{next.url}}" title="Next Post: {{next.title}}">{{next.title}} &raquo;</a>
{% endif %}

Display year/month in archive page

If you want to display year and month in archive page like my blog page, here is the code:

{% capture year %}{% endcapture %}
{% capture month %}{% endcapture %}

{% for post in site.posts %}
  {% capture post_year %}{{ post.date | date: "%Y" }}{% endcapture %}
  {% capture post_month %}{{ post.date | date: "%B" }}{% endcapture %}

  {% if year != post_year %}
    {% assign year = post_year %}
  {% endif %}

  {% if month != post_month %}
    {% assign month = post_month %}
    <div class="post-seperator">
      <span class="post-year-header">{{ year }}</span>
      <span class="post-month-header">{{ month }}</span>
    </div>
  {% endif %}

  {% include post.html %}
{% endfor %}

Add content menu

On the left sidebar, a sweet content menu of this post is displayed. This is created using JavaScript, take a look at my headings.js script.

Download it, include it with jQuery, and add a <div id="content-menu"></div> to your layout to use it.

Create project pages

This is an annoying part. At first, I create pages for each project. It turns out that pages cannot be sorted (by filenames’ order, or using sort liquid markup) on Github Page.

In the end, I have to put them as posts and generate them under /project/ using permalink, with a lot more changes in order not to mix project posts with normal posts. Refer to my site’s source code ;).

Embed iframe elements

Empty tag will cause the page not fully rendered. To embed an iframe element, add some text inside the tag to solve this:

<!-- change this iframe element to work -->
<iframe src="..."></iframe>
<!-- by adding random text inside tag -->
<iframe src="...">work now</iframe>

Fork

You can fork my site. Remove the posts in /_posts/ and get started. Please keep the credit in the footer, thanks.