I like it. This definitely needs some tests and features built in if you want it included.

I'll gladly write the tests. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "features built in" so I can move forward on getting this integrated?

Sorry about the dup msg...

No problem. I meant a Cucumber feature/integration test for this, just to ensure that it works as expected.

Another issue with this: some sort of secure: false flag should be necessary to enable this feature. Since Jekyll is in charge of generating the GitHub pages, we can't let just anyone to execute whatever they'd like on the server. For most users generating posts though, this behavior is extremely useful.

That shouldn't be hard to implement. I'll add it in my fork.

I added support for a _liquid_tags directory along with a config param "liquid_tags" that defaults to false. Also added two tests to test_site. It may be worth breaking the "should load external tags" test into its own context since it uses its own site with a different config. Let me know what you think.

http://github.com/n8agrin/jekyll/commit/dfd5ef02b4c0edf59476aa15b472a0a5ab9980ee

I see this is on hold. Anything else I can do to help it get through?

There's been no work done towards an insecure/secure mode yet. I'd like to see that in the lib first. The same conditions apply as my earlier comment.

Ah ok, I didn't interpret your earlier request as you literally wanted a "secure: false" flag implemented. I took that to mean you wanted the option to turn importing custom tags on and off, hence the liquid_tags config param. My mistake, shouldn't be hard to get a secure flag working.

What's holding this back? It seems like it has a command line flag to turn it on or off. why isn't that enough?

While I realize people are working on this (sorry to be impatient!), I have come up with a temporary solution for those that are interested:

http://benjaminthomas.org/2009/10/21/custom-liquid-tags-in-jekyll.html

Cool. I just bumped this here: http://github.com/n8agrin/jekyll/commit/4b82e06f8b0ee153149edc803abd297d50539b41 Hopefully that's should cover everything.

Summary of changes:

1. Changed liquid_tags flag to "secure", secure is set to true by default
2. Added if block that checks the secure flag, if it's false, liquid tags (and presumably other insecure code) can be loaded.
3. Added tests for the liquid tags.

I'm not terribly happy with the line that reads "load file unless require file", I may change that to just "load file".

Please review and let me know if there are issues which need to be resolved before this can be merged.

Hi,
I've just implemented custom tags http://github.com/jodosha/jekyll/commit/6fb67d35fb714a063571a3e5c8819650e6fc7090 and custom Liquid filters http://github.com/jodosha/jekyll/commit/68861c5a5ac6bedb3b8670a56ac684b043912c95

Are there any issues left that need to be tackled?

None that I know of. We have 3 implementations, each of which seem fine. Unclear to me what's holding this oft-requested feature up.

+1 to this feature, it'd be really nice to have the option to extend jekyll sites without forking and building my own gem.

#100 addresses this nicely too in a generic extensions way as requested by qrush.

I've come up with another solution (http://github.com/rfelix/jekyll_ext) that not only allows you to easily add liquid tags for your blog, but also allows you to extend Jekyll without forking and modifying the gem's codebase.

The extensions live under the "_extensions" directory of your blog, and this is how easy it is to add custom liquid tags: http://github.com/rfelix/my_jekyll_extensions/blob/master/my_filters/my_filters.rb

Read my post about it for more information: http://rfelix.com/2010/01/19/jekyll-extensions-minus-equal-pain/

The latest on master now has Plugin support. Look at lib/jekyll/converters for examples of how they're done. Also, any *.rb files in a _plugins directory will be loaded so that you can create custom plugins of your own.

I've readed the source code but can't figure out how the plugins are supposed to work. I'd appreciate some orientation on that respect (maybe updating of the "hacking jekyll" wiki page)

I see that the new page is created ( http://wiki.github.com/mojombo/jekyll/plugins ). Thanks!