jekyll-webring plugin
A plugin designed to generate a webring from rss feeds based on a date, so you can link to other blogs. Inspiried by openring.
Installation
Add this line to your site's Gemfile:
gem 'jekyll-webring'And then add this line to your site's _config.yml:
plugins:
- jekyll-webringUsage
Generate a webring by putting this in a liquid template
{% webring %}You can pass some options to the tag too. For example pass a date to generate a webring of articles written before that date:
{% webring post.date %}Or pass 'random' to select random items from the rss feeds given:
{% webring 'random' %}If the layout_file config option is set, you can create a liquid template
for the webring. The default one looks like:
<section class="webring">
<h3>Articles from blogs I follow around the net</h3>
<section class="articles">
{% for item in webring %}
<div class="article">
<h4 class="title">
<a href="{{ item.url }}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">{{ item.title }}</a>
</h4>
<p class="summary">{{ item.summary }}</p>
<small class="source">
via <a href="{{ item.source_url }}">{{ item.source_title }}</a>
</small>
<small class="date">{{ item.date }}</small>
</div>
{% endfor %}
</section>
</section>Configuration
webring:
# Will save and read data from _data/webring.yml
# suggested to add this file to excludes in _config.yml otherwise jekyll
# watch will get stuck in a permanant regenerate loop.
# (I also suggest setting this if you want to guarantee having the same
# webring generated, as many feeds only show the most recent items and will
# be unable to have a webring item generated for them if not saved)
# default: nil
data_file: webring
# Will look for a liquid template at _layouts/webring.html
# if not set will use a default template
# default: nil
layout_file: webring
# Array of rss feed urls
# default: nil
feeds:
- $RSS_FEED_URL
# The max length of the summary of the article
# default: 256
max_summary_length: 256
# The number of items to show in the webring
# default: 3
num_items: 3
# What to do if a date is given and no items in the feed are older than that
# date
# options: ignore, use_oldest, use_latest, random
# default: ignore
no_item_at_date_behaviour: use_oldest
# The format the dates will be displayed in.
# If not set uses site.date_format, and if that is not set it reverts to
# default
# default: "%-d %B, %Y"
date_format: "%-d %B, %Y"