Is it possible to make a custom post type in Jekyll like "News" I want it to have its own categories.

I'd like to make custom post types like News, Recipes, Blog, and each will have their own categories and tags and liquid variables. Is that possible with Jekyll? I'm trying to wrap my head around how to go about it.

When you make a post in the _Posts folder, you can use Front Matter to specify the Layout, Title, Date, Category, and it will automatically be laid out after the Posts layout template. I'm wondering if I can make a template for News, make posts under a _news folder, and have them automatically be generated under the News _layout, and use liquid variables to pull out the content from the news posts on a page like the example below:

    <ul class="news">
      {% for post in paginator.news %}
        <li class="news__item">
          <a class="news__title" href="{{ post.url | prepend: site.baseurl }}">{{ news.title }}</a>
          <div class="news__meta">
            <b class="news__author">{{ news.author }}</b>
            <b class="news__sep">&#x25cf;</b>
            <b class="news__date">{{ news.date | date: "%b %-d, %Y" }}</b>
          </div>

            {{ news.excerpt }}
          <a class="btn--default" href="{{ news.url | prepend: site.baseurl }}">Read more</a>
        </li>
      {% endfor %}
    </ul>