Awesome Series @ Planet Jekyll

Jekyll • Jekyll Plugins

A collection of awesome Jekyll plugins (gems, scripts, pasties, etc.)

Gems

• Emoji for Jekyll ★59, gem: emoji_for_jekyll -- Seamlessly enable emoji for all posts and pages.
• Compass integration for Jekyll ★51, gem: jekyll-compass -- Easily integrate Compass and Sass with your Jekyll website.
• Jekyll::AutolinkEmail ★6, gem: jekyll-autolink_email by Ivan Tse -- Autolink your emails.
• Jekyll::GitMetadata ★24, gem: jekyll-git_metadata by Ivan Tse -- Expose Git metadata for your templates.
• Jekyll Auto Image ★30, gem: jekyll-auto-image by Merlos -- Gets the first image of a post. Useful to list your posts with images or to add twitter cards to your site.
• Jekyll-Umlauts ★6, gem: jekyll-umlauts by Arne Gockeln -- This generator replaces all german umlauts (äöüß) case sensitive with html.
• Jekyll::Paginate::Category ★4, gem: jekyll-paginate-category -- Pagination Generator for Jekyll Category.

Scripts

• Sitemap.xml Generator ★202 by Michael Levin -- Generates a sitemap.xml file by traversing all of the available posts and pages.
• Full-text search ★141 by Pascal Widdershoven -- Adds full-text search to your Jekyll site with a plugin and a bit of JavaScript.
• AliasGenerator ★121 by Thomas Mango -- Generates redirect pages for posts when an alias is specified in the YAML Front Matter.
• Pageless Redirect Generator ★61 by Nick Quinlan -- Generates redirects based on files in the Jekyll root, with support for htaccess style redirects.
• RssGenerator ★81 by Assaf Gelber -- Automatically creates an RSS 2.0 feed from your posts.
• Monthly archive generator ★30 by Shigeya Suzuki -- Generator and template which renders monthly archive like MovableType style, based on the work by Ilkka Laukkanen and others above.
• Category archive generator ★74 by Shigeya Suzuki -- Generator and template which renders category archive like MovableType style, based on Monthly archive generator.
• Pages Directory ★45 by Ben Baker-Smith -- Defines a _pages directory for page files which routes its output relative to the project root.
• Page Collections ★19 by Jeff Kolesky -- Generates collections of pages with functionality that resembles posts.
• Windows 8.1 Live Tile Generation ★9 by Matt Sheehan -- Generates Internet Explorer 11 config.xml file and Tile Templates for pinning your site to Windows 8.1.
• Typescript Generator ★3 by Matt Sheehan -- Generate Javascript on build from your Typescript.
• Jekyll Portfolio Generator ★21 by Shannon Babincsak -- Generates project pages and computes related projects out of project data files.
• Jekyll Flickr Plugin ★6 by Lawrence Murray -- Generates posts for photos uploaded to a Flickr photostream.
• AMP-Jekyll ★31 by Juuso Mikkonen -- Generate Accelerated Mobile Pages of Jekyll posts.

Gist Pasties

• ArchiveGenerator by Ilkka Laukkanen -- Uses this archive page to generate archives.
• LESS.js Generator by Andy Fowler -- Renders LESS.js files during generation.
• Version Reporter by Blake Smith -- Creates a version.html file containing the Jekyll version.
• Jekyll Http Basic Auth Plugin -- Plugin to manage http basic auth for jekyll generated pages and directories.

Gems

• Textile converter ★1, gem: jekyll-textile-converter -- Convert .textile files into HTML. Also includes the textilize Liquid filter.
• Slim plugin ★25, gem: jekyll-slim -- Slim converter and includes for Jekyll with support for Liquid tags.
• AsciiDoc Plugin ★84, gem: jekyll-asciidoc -- AsciiDoc convertor for Jekyll using Asciidoctor.
• jekyll-commonmark ★1, gem: jekyll-commonmark -- Markdown converter that uses libcmark, the reference parser for CommonMark.

Scripts

• Jade plugin ★45 by John Papandriopoulos -- Jade converter for Jekyll.
• Markdown References ★27 by Olov Lassus -- Keep all your markdown reference-style link definitions in one _references.md file.
• ReStructuredText Converter ★42 -- Converts ReST documents to HTML with Pygments syntax highlighting.
• Jekyll-pandoc-plugin ★48 -- Use pandoc for rendering markdown.
• Jekyll-pandoc-multiple-formats ★58 -- Use pandoc to generate your site in multiple formats. Supports pandoc’s markdown extensions.
• Customized Kramdown Converter ★31 -- Enable Pygments syntax highlighting for Kramdown-parsed fenced code blocks.
• Bigfootnotes Plugin ★1 -- Enables big footnotes for Kramdown.
• Lazy Tweet Embedding ★14 -- Automatically convert tweet urls into twitter cards.

Gist Pasties

• HAML plugin by Sam Z -- HAML converter for Jekyll.
• HAML-Sass Converter by Adam Pearson -- Simple HAML-Sass converter for Jekyll. Fork by Sam X.
• Sass SCSS Converter by Mark Wolfe -- Sass converter which uses the new CSS compatible syntax, based Sam X's fork above.
• LESS Converter by Jason Graham -- Convert LESS files to CSS.
• LESS Converter by Josh Brown -- Simple LESS converter.
• Upcase Converterby Blake Smith -- An example Jekyll converter.
• CoffeeScript Converter -- A CoffeeScript to Javascript converter.
• Stylus Converter -- Convert .styl to .css.
• Transform Layouts -- Allows HAML layouts (you need a HAML Converter plugin for this to work).
• Org-mode Converter -- Emacs Org-mode converter for Jekyll.

License

The awesome list is dedicated to the public domain. Use it as you please with no restrictions whatsoever.

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