A TextExpander snippet for Jekyll Front Matter. Enter a title, outputs front matter including a slug for the permalink.

jekyl_frontmatter_textexpander.js

var title = '%filltext:name=Title%';
slug = title.replace(/[^\w\s]/gi, '');
var newslug = title.split(" ").join("-");

var dt = new Date();

TextExpander.appendOutput("---\n");
TextExpander.appendOutput("layout: post \n");
TextExpander.appendOutput("title: " + '"' +title + '"'+ "\n");
TextExpander.appendOutput("tags: \n");
TextExpander.appendOutput("published: true \n");
TextExpander.appendOutput("permalink: ") +TextExpander.appendOutput(newslug.toLowerCase()); + TextExpander.appendOutput(" \n");
TextExpander.appendOutput("date: ") + TextExpander.appendOutput(dt.getFullYear() + "-" +(dt.getMonth() +1) + "-" + dt.getDate()) + TextExpander.appendOutput("\n");
TextExpander.appendOutput("summary: \n");
TextExpander.appendOutput("--- \n");

// %filltop%

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