Front Matter Gen

This is a fork of Abdillah/vscode-belikejekyll and rohgarg/jekyll-post. I added a dirname placeholder and made it possible to select multiple user templates.

Markdown Front Matter Generator for VS Code.

This extension makes it easier to create new blog posts for Jekyll-like websites using the Visual Studio Code editor.

Using this extension, a user can create new post file with pre-filled "front matter". The template for front matter can either be provided by the user or the extension will use its built-in template.

Usage instructions

1. settings.json: frontmattergen.enabled = true
2. right click on a directory in the explorer menu
3. select the "New Post" option.
4. select template (case template file > 1)
5. a dialog box prompts the user to provide the name of the file.

If a user wants to provide a template file for new posts, they should create a file: .vscode/fmg_templates/{file} relative to current project root directory.

Here's an example of the template file:

$ cat $PROJECT_ROOT/.vscode/fmg_templates/post
---
layout: post
title:
date: %yyyy%-%mm%-%dd%T%hh%:%ii%:%ss%Z
category: %dir0%
author: User
tags: [tag1, tag2]
summary: Summary of the article
---

If no template is provided, the extension will use its built-in template for new posts. The default template is as follows:

---
layout: post,
title: This is a new article
date: %yyyy%-%mm%-%dd% %hh%:%ii%
category: Category
author: User
tags: [tag1, tag2]
summary: Summary of the article
---

Features

• Adds a new explorer context menu option to create new blog posts
• Sets up the file name automatically in the configurable format
• Ability to provide a template file for new post, use predefined if not supplied

Supported Placeholder

The following placeholder can be used both in filename and inside template.

• %yyyy%: Year
• %mm%: Month
• %dd%: Day of month
• %hh%: Hour
• %ii%: Minute
• %ss%: Second
• %filename%: Name of supplied file plus extension
• %dir0%: Name of file's dirname

dir name : dir0~N

 file's path : D:\workspaceFolders\category1\category2\2021-12-26-new-post.md

• %dir0%: category2
• %dir1%: category1
• %dir2%: workspaceFolders

Requirements

This has only been tested on the latest release (v.1.63.2) of Visual Studio Code. It may or may not work on earlier releases.

Extension Settings

• frontmattergen.enabled: enable extension
• frontmattergen.template.path: template path
• frontmattergen.instance.filename: filename pattern
• frontmattergen.filename.extension: filename extension
• frontmattergen.filename.default: new filename

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• https://github.com/rohgarg/jekyll-post
• https://github.com/Abdillah/vscode-belikejekyll

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