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Posted by maxgironcodes
maxgironcodes
6,294 Points

How to filter Jekyll posts by week?

I'm building a site with weekly posts. What I would like to achieve is a home page displaying posts for the current week. Could someone steer me in the right direction?

At the moment, the closest I've gotten to this is a for loop comparing dates between posts. When a post's date is different, I can assume it was posted last week (since the site is updated on Thursdays). The problem is this is not ideal, considering that posts are published occasionally on odd days. AND, to top it off, these conditionals are not filtering posts in the category "top" when dates differ.

      {% for post in site.categories.top %}
        {% capture thisPostDate %}
          {{ post.date | date: "%m%d%Y" }}
        {% endcapture %}
        {% if thisPostDate != prevPostDate %}
          <a class="tnews-module small-onehalf medium-onethird column" href="{{ post.url }}">
            <div class="thumbnail">
              <img src="https://unsplash.it/100/100/?image=311"/>
            </div>
            <h2>{{ post.title }}</h2>
          </a>
          {% capture prevPostDate %}
            {{ thisPostDate }}
          {% endcapture %}
        {% endif %}
      {% endfor %}

Both variables are working and capturing post dates.

1 Answer

Chris McKnight
Chris McKnight
11,045 Points
Chris McKnight
Chris McKnight
11,045 Points

I would run a partition on site.categories.top based on the year of the post and the week of the year of the post.

# %U starts weeks on Sunday
# %W starts week on Monday
site.categories.top.partition { |post| post.date.strftime('%Y-%W') }