Feature Overview

JekyllNet has moved past the stage where it only proves a concept. The current codebase now covers a meaningful slice of the behavior needed by documentation sites, theme-style sites, and simple blogs.

Content and publishing pipeline

The build pipeline already covers the content primitives that most Jekyll-shaped sites expect:

• _config.yml loading with defaults and site-level options
• YAML front matter for pages, posts, collections, and static files
• Markdown to HTML rendering
• posts, tags, categories, and collection output
• drafts, future, and unpublished switches
• excerpt generation and excerpt_separator
• nested index.md permalink handling

Layout, includes, and Liquid behavior

The rendering layer already supports the common layout and template flow that many themes rely on:

• _layouts and nested layouts
• _includes
• _data
• if, unless, case/when, capture, and contains
• stronger for support including limit, offset, reversed, and forloop metadata
• improved loop cleanup so loop variables do not leak unexpectedly
• more stable include behavior inside nested control-flow blocks

Filters that matter for themes

Recent work focused on high-value filters because that lifts theme compatibility quickly. JekyllNet now includes practical support for:

• relative_url
• absolute_url
• markdownify
• where
• sort
• map
• compact
• jsonify
• slugify

Pagination, assets, and output stability

The site-building layer also covers:

• baseline pagination with paginate and paginate_path
• nested config keys such as pagination.per_page and pagination.path
• per-page pagination disable
• Sass and SCSS compilation (entry files must include YAML Front Matter: ---\n---)
• static asset copying
• fixture-based build regression tests for both sample-site and docs

Multilingual and AI-assisted docs

JekyllNet now supports:

• locale-aware defaults
• automatic translation links across locale variants
• AI-assisted translation
• translation cache
• incremental translation reuse
• glossary support
• provider support for OpenAI, DeepSeek, Ollama, and OpenAI-compatible third-party endpoints