# Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife's personal recipe website ([cookingwith.casa](https://cookingwith.casa)) which I hadn't touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each `collection` by hand on the main homepage[^1]. Not so good. 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! ## Looping Our Collections 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. Work smart not hard! Let's take a look at the bare-bones collections loop: {% for collection in site.collections %} {% endfor %} Then we need to include an `if` statement to avoid pulling in standard `post` items (or leave this in if that is desired): {% for collection in site.collections %} {% if collection.label != 'posts' %} {% endif %} {% endfor %} Now for my specific use case, we want to display each collection label and then list its corresponding items below that label (see the `site[collection.label]` for reference) {% for collection in site.collections %} {% if collection.label != 'posts' %}

{{ collection.label }}


{% endif %} {% endfor %} That's it! Now if I plan to add any new collections down the line, I just need to include it in the `_config.yml` file and I'm set. The homepage will take care of the rest once rendered. Enjoy looping through your Jekyll collections! ## Refs 1. Just the sections were statically rendered. All the recipes were pulled in dynamically - I'm not that insane!