limit jekyll posts to specified folder

Question

I am using Jekyll to build a web site,

I want to have some folder structure like

root
   - _posts
       Kinds of MD files
   Index.html
   - v1.0
       - _posts
           Kinds of MD files
       Index.html

I want to build a web site, the URL like http://host/root/ points to current version document,the URL like http://host/root/v1.0 points to version 1.0 document.

In both index.html, I use code like below,

  {% assign sortedCategories = site.categories | sort %}
  {% for category in sortedCategories %}
  <h1 class="post-title" id="{{ category[1] | replace:' ','-' | replace:'.','' }}">{{ category[1] | join: "/" | upcase }}</h1>
  <ul class="post-list">
    {% for posts in category %}
    {% for post in posts reversed %}
    {% if post.title != null%}
    <li>
      <h2 class="post-title" id="{{ post.id | remove_first:'/'}}">{{ post.title }}</h2>
      <article class="post-content">
        {{ post.content }}
      </article>
    </li>
    {% endif %}
    {% endfor %}
    {% endfor %}
  </ul>
  {% endfor %}

The issues I met is,

As both _post folder has similar posts and category, in the http://host/root/, each post is shown twice.
In URL http://host/root/, it has an additional category which contains all the posts (in both folder _posts and v1.0/posts)
The same issues for URL http://host/root/v1.0

I want to know how I can restrict the site.categories to only search specified folder? Or there is some other suggestions on this?

thanks

ganesshkumar ganesshkumar · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-21T21:11:38

posts can not be limited to a particular folder as it is site wide. You can create custom collection. Suppose if you have v1, v2 and root(pointing to v2). You can use the same collection name for v2 and root.

limit jekyll posts to specified folder

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