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Jekyll: Making Posts Sticky Redux

WARNING: This is old and likely obsolete.

• Time-stamp: <2020-03-23 05:01:55 tamara> - conversion to org-mode
• original date: 2017-09-04 19:00
• keywords: jekyll

Last time, I talked about using categories to make a post sticky. This eats up a category, though, and can make the post’s permalink look silly.

Use a Page Variable

This time, we’re just going to use a page variable to do it.

In your posts that you want to be sticky, add a page variable to the front matter:

---
layout: post
sticky: true
# ...
---

Then in your page where you want the sticky posts to appear first, use the following template:

{% for post in site.posts %}{% if post.sticky %}
* [{{post.title}}]({{post.url}}) {{post.date|date_to_string}}
{% endif %}{% endfor %}

{% for post in site.posts %}{% unless post.sticky %}
* [{{post.title}}]({{post.url}}) {{post.date|date_to_string}}
{% endunless %}{% endfor %}
{% endraw %}

If you wanted the sticky posts to show up again in the lower section, just remove the unless-endunless condition in the second loop.

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Use a Collection

The above solution is still a bit crude, and doesn’t really lend itself to pagination.

Perhaps a better solution to try for is set up a collection of sticky posts and deal with them completely separately from your regular posts.

In _config.yml

collections:
  - important

Create the sticky posts in the _important folder like regular posts.

The file you want to show the sticky and regular post then can have the following construction:

{% for post in site.important %}
* [{{post.title}}]({{post.url}}) {{post.date|date_to_string}}
{% endfor %}

{% for post in site.posts %}
* [{{post.title}}]({{post.url}}) {{post.date|date_to_string}}
{% endfor %}
{% endraw %}

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Works with Jekyl 3.5.2. YMMV.