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+<h1>Looping Through Jekyll Collections</h1>
+<p>2022-08-12</p>
+<p>I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife's personal recipe website (<a href="https://cookingwith.casa">cookingwith.casa</a>) which I hadn't touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each <code>collection</code> by hand on the main homepage[^1].</p>
+<p>Not so good.</p>
+<p>Of course, this wasn't difficult at all to fix. Now everything is much more "hands free" moving forward. I figured I would share the details here in the hopes that others mind find it useful. Plus, it's my blog - so I'll do what I want!</p>
+<h2>Looping Our Collections</h2>
+<p>We want Jekyll to make things as streamlined as possible for us. This means that if I decide to add a new collection it will automatically render it along the others on the homepage.</p>
+<p>Work smart not hard!</p>
+<p>Let's take a look at the bare-bones collections loop:</p>
+<pre><code>{% for collection in site.collections %}
+ &lt;!-- Our code goes here --&gt;
+{% endfor %}
+</code></pre>
+<p>Then we need to include an <code>if</code> statement to avoid pulling in standard <code>post</code> items (or leave this in if that is desired):</p>
+<pre><code>{% for collection in site.collections %}
+ {% if collection.label != 'posts' %}
+ {% endif %}
+{% endfor %}
+</code></pre>
+<p>Now for my specific use case, we want to display each collection label and then list its corresponding items below that label (see the <code>site[collection.label]</code> for reference)</p>
+<pre><code>{% for collection in site.collections %}
+ {% if collection.label != 'posts' %}
+ &lt;h2&gt;{{ collection.label }}&lt;/h2&gt;
+ &lt;ul class=&quot;recipe-list&quot;&gt;
+ {% for item in site[collection.label] %}
+ &lt;li&gt;
+ &lt;a href=&quot;{{ item.url }}&quot;&gt;{{ item.title }}&lt;/a&gt;
+ &lt;/li&gt;
+ {% endfor %}
+ &lt;/ul&gt;
+ &lt;hr&gt;
+ {% endif %}
+{% endfor %}
+</code></pre>
+<p>That's it! Now if I plan to add any new collections down the line, I just need to include it in the <code>_config.yml</code> file and I'm set. The homepage will take care of the rest once rendered.</p>
+<p>Enjoy looping through your Jekyll collections!</p>
+<h2>Refs</h2>
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+<li>Just the sections were statically rendered. All the recipes were pulled in dynamically - I'm not that insane!</li>
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