Use Jekyll Post Generator

Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator. It’s fast, simple, text-based, easy-to-use, locally stored, and more, but, there’s one drawback when creating a new post: you have to follow the strict naming standard to create a new post including the filename and the meta data within it.

Here comes the rescue: jekyll-posts-generator. It’s an automation tool that does all these things automatically for you.

Installation

You need npm to install the package. Once you have npm installed, run following command:

$ sudo npm install -g jekyll-posts-generator

How to use

In order to use the command, switch to your jekyll site folder first.

Create a new post

$ jposts create-post "your post name"

This will create a post inside the _posts folder with a name “[YYYY-MM-DD]-your-post-name.md”. It will also fill in the meta data for you at the beginning of the file like this:

---
  layout: post
  title: your post name
  tags:
  categories:
---

You can then add your tags and categories separated by space.