Extending and Hacking on Jekyll

Examples and links to various extensions/hackings on Jekyll.

Integrating with Git

• Blogging with Git, Emacs and Jekyll
• Using Git to maintain your blog (step by step guide)

Other hacks

• Integrating Twitter with Jekyll: “Having migrated Justkez.com to be based on Jekyll, I was pondering how I might include my recent twitterings on the front page of the site. In the Wordpress world, this would have been done via a plugin which may or may not have hung the loading of the page, might have employed caching, but would certainly have had some overheads. … Not in Jekyll.”
• ‘My Jekyll Fork’ – Mike West: “Jekyll is a well-architected throwback to a time before Wordpress, when men were men, and HTML was static. I like the ideas it espouses, and have made a few improvements to it’s core. Here, I’ll point out some highlights of my fork in the hopes that they see usage beyond this site.”
• ‘About this Website’ – Carter Allen: "Jekyll is everything that I ever wanted in a blogging engine. Really. It isn’t perfect, but what’s excellent about it is that if there’s something wrong, I know exactly how it works and how to fix it. It runs on the your machine only, and is essentially an added “build” step between you and the browser. I coded this entire site in TextMate using standard HTML5 and CSS3, and then at the end I added just a few little variables to the markup. Presto-chango, my site is built and I am at peace with the world."
• Generating a Tag Cloud in Jekyll: “Guide on how you can implement a tag cloud and per-tag content pages in Jekyll.”
• Jekyll Extensions -= Pain: A way to extend Jekyll without forking and modifying the Jekyll gem codebase (jekyll_ext) + Portable Jekyll extensions that can be reutilized and shared (list of extensions).
• Using your Rails layouts in Jekyll