I started writing about PNWPHP but got distracted and added “Suggested Reading” to my posts instead.
This weekend I attended PNWPHP. It was great. Instead of writing about that, I started looking up how to manage Related Posts in Jekyll. There are built-in options to do that, but they never satisfied me. I found Wenli Zhang’s post “Jekyll Related Posts without Plugin” and understood a little better.
Okay, no. Not really. But that post led me to related_posts-jekyll-plugin and this fork by jumanji27 which is friendlier for current Jekyll releases.
Since it’s a little more fiddly than a regular plugin, I hand-copied the code into a file _plugins/related-posts.rb
and added a nice little “Suggested Posts” footer to the post template.
I limited it to five related posts. Some posts will have a hundred related posts due to the way I imported content from my other sites.
Incidentally, I think this plugin does a better job picking related posts than Jekyll’s built-in approach, though I have no idea why. Jekyll usually ended up with nothing related, and just defaulted back to the most recent posts. This works better for me.
For the moment I prefer a comma-delimited dump of posts. Later I may play with some list styling. However, I did have the problem of post titles being broken up by line breaks. A little white-space: nowrap
in the right spot fixes that.
Now the text of each post link stays together.
Just wanted to share all this. Have fun!
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Added to vault 2024-01-15. Updated on 2024-01-26