Using org-mode with Jekyll
Since my journey into Google Docs’s Hell I have been getting more reacquainted with org-mode for other purposes as well. Traditionally, I have been writing this blog using Markdown and publishing it with Jekyll. I love Markdown, and while it is fine for most cases, but what better way to gain more experience with org-mode than to blog with it! The best tutorial that I have found so far is this one from the org mode web site: Using org to Blog with Jekyll. One “gotcha” that I have ran into so far, is everything breaking if I include a table of contents (which happens by default when you export to HTML). The simplest solution for this is to add the following to the top of your org flavored file.
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
This allows the front-matter to be exported properly. I am also choosing not to include section numbering for my posts. So the complete front-matter for this post looks like this:
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil
#+BEGIN_HTML
---
layout: post
title: "Using org-mode with Jekyll"
permalink: /:title/
tags: hacking
---
#+END_HTML
Configuration
;; File ~/.emacs.d/customizations/setup-org.el
;; ...
;;;;
;; Projects
;;;;
;; levlaz.org Blog
(setq org-publish-project-alist
'(("levlaz"
;; Path to org files.
:base-directory "~/git/levlaz.org/_org"
:base-extension "org"
;; Path to Jekyll Posts
:publishing-directory "~/git/levlaz.org/_posts/2016/"
:recursive t
:publishing-function org-html-publish-to-html
:headline-levels 4
:html-extension "html"
:body-only t
)))
Workflow
- Add a new file to
git/levlaz.org/_org/$DATE-$TITLE.org
- Add the front matter shown above
- Blog my heart out
- Check my spelling with
ispell
- Publish the org file with
C-c C-e P p
, this moves the file fromgit/levlaz.org/_org/
to/git/levlaz.org/_posts/2016/$DATE-$TITLE.html
- Build and Deploy my site with my Rakefile:
rake deploy
.
Conclusion
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