Al-Ext-Posts

A Jekyll plugin that allows you to fetch and display external blog posts from RSS feeds and specific URLs in your Jekyll site.

Add this line to your Jekyll site's Gemfile:

gem 'al_ext_posts'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

1. Add the plugin to your site's _config.yml:

plugins:
  - al_ext_posts

2. Configure your external sources in _config.yml:

external_sources:
  - name: "My Blog"
    rss_url: "https://myblog.com/feed.xml"
    categories: ["external", "blog"]
    tags: ["rss", "updates"]
  - name: "Another Source"
    categories: ["external"]
    tags: ["manual-curation"]
    posts:
      - url: "https://example.com/post1"
        published_date: "2024-03-20"
      - url: "https://example.com/post2"
        published_date: "2024-03-21"

The plugin supports two types of sources:

• RSS feeds: Provide the rss_url parameter
• Direct URLs: Provide a list of posts with url and published_date

Optional per-source defaults:

• categories: array of categories automatically applied to imported posts
• tags: array of tags automatically applied to imported posts

After checking out the repo, run bundle install to install dependencies.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.