Al-Ext-Posts

A Jekyll plugin that allows you to fetch and display external blog posts from RSS feeds and specific URLs in your Jekyll site.

Installation

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem 'al_ext_posts'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Usage

1. Add the plugin to your site's _config.yml:

plugins:
  - al_ext_posts

2. Configure your external sources in _config.yml:

external_sources:
  - name: "My Blog"
    rss_url: "https://myblog.com/feed.xml"
    categories: ["external", "blog"]
    tags: ["rss", "updates"]
  - name: "Another Source"
    categories: ["external"]
    tags: ["manual-curation"]
    posts:
      - url: "https://example.com/post1"
        published_date: "2024-03-20"
      - url: "https://example.com/post2"
        published_date: "2024-03-21"

The plugin supports two types of sources:

• RSS feeds: Provide the rss_url parameter
• Direct URLs: Provide a list of posts with url and published_date

Optional per-source defaults:

• categories: array of categories automatically applied to imported posts
• tags: array of tags automatically applied to imported posts

Development

After checking out the repo, run bundle install to install dependencies.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.