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Abstraction: Jekyll blog author attribution via _config.yml data

Key points:

• Originally hard-coded author name and Gravatar hash directly in each post's YAML front matter — tedious to copy/paste across posts
• Better approach: define author objects in _config.yml under an authors key (display_name, gravatar, email, web, twitter, github fields)
• All _config.yml keys are exposed in Liquid templates via the site variable (since Jekyll 0.5.2)
• Post front matter needs only author: matt; template retrieves data with {% assign author = site.authors[page.author] %}
• Author data can be reused across the site (e.g., About page), not just in post templates
• Eliminates copy/paste errors and centralizes author metadata in one file

Connections: Jekyll · Static Site Generation · Template Language

Source: http://www.lostdecadegames.com/blog-author-attribution-using-jekyll/