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by tedkimble 3789 days ago
Good news. We're using Jekyll 3 at Static Website Manager [1], but we're moving to support older specific versions as well as custom Gemfiles.

[1]: https://www.staticwebsitemanager.com

Are there any features the community would love to see offered in a Jekyll-based CMS?
4 comments
technion 3789 days ago
My Jekyll work flow tends to involve: Write a blog. Publish. Recognise horrid markdown bugs. Go and fix already published blog.

I appreciate there are better workflows, but as a Windows user I'm not going to install Jekyll to publish locally and test, nor is my blog big enough to justify a test environment.

The "drafts" feature basically just takes a draft and publishes it. What would really make life easier is it the drafts feature would "publish this blog, but don't update the front page to link it". I could look at it knowing the URL, and get it right first.

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tedkimble 3789 days ago
That's my main use case. I've got my personal blog [1] setup as a Static Website Manager repository and connected to my personal AWS S3 bucket.

Whenever I need to make a little change I can edit locally in my editor of choice, commit and push to SWM where I can preview the changes before merging to my production bucket (all without installing Jekyll locally).

If I don't have my machine, I can also just login, edit the text and then follow the same preview/merge to deploy workflow.

[1]: http://www.theodorekimble.com

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JorgeGT 3789 days ago
As a fellow Windows user (at least at home) with a Jekyll blog deployed on GitHub pages, I would recommend using a web IDE such as c9.io or koding.com.

They are little VPSs with sudo access (and a private web server) so you can test "locally" there and then git push once you're ironed out bugs. In your Windows machine you only need a web browser.

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WorldMaker 3788 days ago
At least Jekyll 3 is much, much easier to install in Windows than 2 was.
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mojavelinux 3789 days ago
AsciiDoc support would be brilliant. There's a gem for that. (See https://github.com/asciidoctor/jekyll-asciidoc). Many people ask about it. GitHub has been reluctant to adopt.
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bnj 3789 days ago
Something that's possible with some static engines but not really catered to is the ability to include the contents of other markdown files into a page-

----page----

# Title

<< contents of /markdown/file >>

<< second file >>

<< third file >>

Useful if you have lots of sections that you want to combine in different ways, and update them all at the same time...

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pizn 3788 days ago
Oh...I like this. I code a project that can help me to write and publish my Jekyll blog on Github. https://github.com/pizn/eevee
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