Be Like Jekyll

Markdown Jekyll-like New Post Generator for VS Code.

This extension makes it easier to create new blog posts for Jekyll-like websites using the Visual Studio Code editor.

Using this extension, a user can create new post file with pre-filled "front matter". The template for front matter can either be provided by the user or the extension will use its built-in template.

Usage instructions

If a user wants to provide a template file for new posts, they should create a file: .vscode/template/post relative to current project root directory.

Here's an example of the template file:

$ cat $PROJECT_ROOT/.vscode/template/post
---
layout: post
title: This is a new article
author: User
summary: Summary of the article
---

If no template is provided, the extension will use its built-in template for new posts. The default template is as follows:

---
layout: post,
title: This is a new article
date: %yyyy%-%mm%-%dd% %hh%:%ii%
category: Category
author: User
tags: [tag1, tag2]
summary: Summary of the article
---

To create a new post, a user must right click on a directory in the explorer menu and select the "New Post" option. Then, a dialog box prompts the user to provide the name of the file.

Features

• Adds a new explorer context menu option to create new blog posts
• Sets up the file name automatically in the configurable format
• Ability to provide a template file for new post, use predefined if not supplied

Supported Placeholder

The following placeholder can be used both in filename and inside template.

• %yyyy%: Year
• %mm%: Month
• %dd%: Day of month
• %hh%: Hour
• %ii%: Minute
• %ss%: Second
• %filename%: Name of supplied file plus extension

Requirements

This has only been tested on the latest release (v.1.34.0) of Visual Studio Code. It may or may not work on earlier releases.

Extension Settings

There are no extension-specific settings for now.