Create new post with jekyll-compose

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'jekyll-compose', group: [:jekyll_plugins]

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

After you have installed (see above), run bundle exec jekyll help and you should see:

Listed in help you will see new commands available to you:

  draft      # Creates a new draft post with the given NAME
  post       # Creates a new post with the given NAME
  publish    # Moves a draft into the _posts directory and sets the date
  unpublish  # Moves a post back into the _drafts directory
  page       # Creates a new page with the given NAME

Create your new page using:

$ bundle exec jekyll page "My New Page"

Create your new post using:

$ bundle exec jekyll post "My New Post"

Create your new draft using:

$ bundle exec jekyll draft "My new draft"

Publish your draft using:

$ bundle exec jekyll publish _drafts/my-new-draft.md
# or specify a specific date on which to publish it
$ bundle exec jekyll publish _drafts/my-new-draft.md --date 2014-01-24

Unpublish your post using:

$ bundle exec jekyll unpublish _posts/2014-01-24-my-new-draft.md

Configuration

To customize the default plugin configuration edit the jekyll_compose section within your jekyll config file.

  jekyll_compose:
    auto_open: true

and make sure that you have EDITOR or JEKYLL_EDITOR environment variable set.

The latter one will override default EDITOR value.

It will open a newly generated post in your selected editor.