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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 %}
<!-- Our code goes here -->
{% 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' %}
<h2>{{ collection.label }}</h2>
<ul class="recipe-list">
{% for item in site[collection.label] %}
<li>
<a href="{{ item.url }}">{{ item.title }}</a>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
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{% 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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