Jekyll is not reading site.posts

Question

Recently, I decided to start my Blog on Github Pages. I forked Jekyll-Now and pulled the code into my local environment.

Now I am running jekyll serve but it is not reading the posts in the _posts folder!.

It seems that the site.posts variable in index.html couldn't be read. If I output the variable or inspect it as : {{ site.posts | inspect }} then it is empty.

The posts names are within the correct format YYYY-MM-DD-TITLE.md If I run jekyll serve inside the _posts folder, then I will get an IndexOf page with all the posts listed without any problem.

The content of _config.yml :

# Name of your site (displayed in the header)
name: My name

# Short bio or description (displayed in the header)
description: Blog on various topics

# URL of your avatar or profile pic (you could use your GitHub profile pic)
# avatar: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/master/images/jekyll-logo.png

# Includes an icon in the footer for each username you enter
footer-links:
  github: motleis/blog

baseurl: ""
permalink: /:title/

# The release of Jekyll Now that you're using
version: v3.4.0

# Jekyll 3 now only supports Kramdown for Markdown
kramdown:
  # Use GitHub flavored markdown, including triple backtick fenced code blocks
  input: GFM
  # Jekyll 3 and GitHub Pages now only support rouge for syntax highlighting
  syntax_highlighter: rouge
  syntax_highlighter_opts:
    # Use existing pygments syntax highlighting css
    css_class: 'highlight'

# Set the Sass partials directory, as we're using @imports
sass:
  style: :expanded # You might prefer to minify using :compressed

# Use the following plug-ins
gems:
  - jekyll-sitemap # Create a sitemap using the official Jekyll sitemap gem
  - jekyll-feed # Create an Atom feed using the official Jekyll feed gem

# Exclude these files from your production _site
exclude:
  - Gemfile
  - Gemfile.lock
  - LICENSE
  - README.md
  - CNAME

Under _posts: I have only simple sample file : 2014-3-3-Hello-World.md

---
layout: post
title: You're up and running!
---

Just a single line that should be displayed!

And here goes the content of index.html, where the posts should be listed:

site.posts : {{ site.posts }}
My posts:
<ul>
  {% for post in site.posts %}
    <li>
      <a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
      {{ post.excerpt }}
    </li>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>

The result is :

site.posts :
My Posts:

As you can see site.posts is empty!

What is your suggestions to debug this issue?

I am running jeykll-3.4.0

Post the post you located in the _posts folder and its filename. Also _config.yml. — marcanuy
Thanks @marcanuy for your comment and for editing the markups in my question. I just edited the post and hope it is more clear — mtleis
Seems to be fine, it should work with jekyll serve at the root folder (i.e. the folder that contains _config.yml) — marcanuy
Indeed, I am running jekyll serve at the root folder where the _config.yml and _posts folder are located. Index.html is also located there, and it seems to be compiled fine into _site folder. If I edit the index.html with a static content, it will be built fine. The problem is that the variables are not accessed for some reason. — mtleis
The filename was it: YYYY-MM-DD-TITLE.md is different than 2014-3-3-Hello-World.md — marcanuy

Unknown Unknown · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-01T14:38:06

Updated Answer:

Check that your posts are in YYYY-MM-DD-title.MARKUP, i.e. 2017-01-01-title.md style, with 0 for padding.

Under "Creating Post Files" in "Writing Posts" on Jekyll's documentation page:

To create a new post, all you need to do is create a file in the _posts directory. How you name files in this folder is important. Jekyll requires blog post files to be named according to the following format:

YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP

Where YEAR is a four-digit number, MONTH and DAY are both two-digit numbers, and MARKUP is the file extension representing the format used in the file. For example, the following are examples of valid post filenames:

2011-12-31-new-years-eve-is-awesome.md 2012-09-12-how-to-write-a-blog.md

Former Answer:

Is your _posts folder located in your website's root directory?

My main suggestion otherwise is to create a layout (in the layouts folder) specifically for showing your index (so make a normal webpage and copy and paste the current non-frontmatter content of your index.md file inside). It's my understanding that if it's not Liquid or Markdown, your code is shown as is, and not read / processed for building the website. Even if you have an entirely empty bottom half to your index.md page, to my understanding it should show your posts.

Jekyll is not reading site.posts

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