Limit jekyll post list to certain categories

Question

I have a jekyll website and I have a category (called photo) and I wanted to create a separate layout for a page that would list just the posts that were in the photo category. I also want to keep posts with the photo category out of the main index page.

score 34 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 24 '12 at 10:50

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All categories are available within the site object, access the posts of a category via site.categories.photo so your loop would look like this

{% for post in site.categories.photo %}
    # render the photo post html
{% endfor %}

answered Jan 24 '12 at 10:50

David Burrows

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Unless I misunderstand the question, this should be the correct answer. – matb33 Nov 12 '12 at 14:37
Indeed. Correct, but a bit late. – Janusz Lenar Dec 19 '12 at 14:31
@matb33 I.e. later than a quarter, heh. – Janusz Lenar Dec 19 '12 at 14:32
I prefer this solution, but that is just me :) – Tim B James Feb 08 '13 at 22:00
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@matb33 not the full answer because he will still have the `photo` posts in his main index page – Ali Almoullim Apr 13 '15 at 02:53

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '11 at 19:40

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I just used an {% unless %} block in the main index page to make sure the post wasn't a photo. Example:

{% unless post.category == "photo"%}
    {% comment %} List posts... {% endcomment %}
{% endunless %}

And I used the same thing for showing only photos. Just with an if instead of unless.

answered Jan 23 '11 at 19:40

Mark Szymanski

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I cannot find any information on the `unless` tag. Is it still supported? – orschiro Dec 12 '13 at 20:23
@orschiro check the Liquid documentation: https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/wiki/Liquid-for-Designers#tags – blockloop Feb 10 '14 at 01:27

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 30 '15 at 19:51

The category is case sensitive as well. If your category is photo then it will look like this:

{% for post in site.categories.photo %}
    # render the photo post html
{% endfor %}

If your category is Photo then it will look like this:

{% for post in site.categories.Photo %}
    # render the photo post html
{% endfor %}

Just a quick detail that I tripped up on my build so I thought I would share.

Limit jekyll post list to certain categories

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