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John Paul Ward | Producer Reel

Build and deploy Jekyll site to GitHub Pages

Description

WordPress port into Jekyll. The decision was made because WordPress was just too much for such a low functionality site that was needed. Not to mention much cheaper since all that's paid for is the domain name.

Instructions for Adding New Posts

  1. Create new .md file in _posts folder as YYYY-MM-DD-title.md
  2. Set YAML front matter + content in the file
---
title: <title>
youtube_id: <video-id-from-yt-url>
categories:
    - <category>
    - work # if you want it to show up on the main page
    - <etc>
    # mind the defaults below
    - published: true
    - has_youtube_thumbnail: true
    - layout: <post-for-_posts-dir || page-for-page-dir>
---

"<title-of-commercial>"

Director: <director>

Production: <production-company>

<year> # as YYYY

Todo

  • YAML linter in a pre-commit hook?