[mhd]

What I always found a bit annoying about jekyll (at least without plugin or forks) is that something like http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/ or http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/09/ doesn't work, i.e. the set of archive pages is pretty limited. You get one big one, and then a simple numeric pagination. I used some perl script ages ago (blosxom?), and it did just that.

Still, I guess I can hack that into the code somehow…

One "prepackaged" jekyll configuration that looks quite interesting is Octopress: http://octopress.org/

[josegonzalez]

I dislike Octopress for several reasons:

- No proper attribution to code that they clearly didn't write themselves. It's not that hard people.

- Time could be better spent making the Jekyll docs clearer. The time they spent creating this could have gone into official documentation efforts and creating a better default in the core

- Would be nice if they could add chuck those plugins into their own repository. That way it would be possible to add them to the plugin list I created on the official Jekyll Wiki

I also wish it had a better base template, but I'm no designer, so what the hell do I know.

[drtse4]

Completely agree on #2, having better defaults (a base template and basic things like an archive/categories page) would make switching to jekyll a lot easier. If it wasn't for your plugins (thanks) my switch to jekyll would have been surely postponed until i figured out how to write a plugin for the missing functionalities...

[socratic]

Would/do Jose Diaz-Gonzalez's plug-ins solve your problem?

https://github.com/josegonzalez/josediazgonzalez.com/tree/ma...

[josegonzalez]

I'd like to note that while I did spend quite a while on these plugins, I used it solely as an exercise to learn Ruby. So this is definitely not the best Ruby code.

[mhd]

Thanks for the link, I think this might save me some time developing this myself. (Still wish this was in the default install, so that I'd have an easier time navigating other people's Jekyll blogs, especially now that they seem to enjoy another jump in popularity)