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Hi - I wrote the docs for this. It is a really awesome feature, but be aware that it is targeted at Jekyll 1.3 - which is not quite released yet (https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues?milestone=14&state=...), nor deployed to GitHub Pages yet :)

You can check here: https://github.com/github/pages-gem/blob/master/github-pages... to find out when Pages will be updated to 1.3.X

Also works in middleman if you don't need a blog baked in: http://middlemanapp.com/advanced/local-data/

But also if you do: https://github.com/middleman/middleman-blog

Mixture handles this in a slightly more elegant and flexible way via models and collections.

http://mixture.io https://github.com/teammixture/mixture-collections

As mentioned, Middleman can use JSON or YML. http://middlemanapp.com/advanced/local-data/

This is great. I've found myself frustrated by the Liquid templating system, though. For instance, the print was inserting a line break that was messing with meta tags on my website.

Could you speak more about the things you dislike in Liquid? It's one of my favorite templating systems, especially if you're treating it in the same way as you would mustache templates, i.e., using a view-model or decorator to prep data from a model. If you're using a lot of `assign` or `capture` tags, it's horrible.

Specifically, the error I couldn't figure out how to remedy was the line break caused by the included statement that was in this commit:

https://github.com/philipithomas/www.philipithomas.com/commi...

I wonder if the reason you were having trouble with Liquid is that you were using it incorrectly. It's definitely meant to be secure over simple. Was the issue you were having a bug or did you find a way to fix the encoding?

See the below comment, but it was the "include" here causing a line break that I couldn't figure out:

https://github.com/philipithomas/www.philipithomas.com/commi...

Not sure why OP linked to the Github file instead of the file on the site (w/ syntax highlighting, etc.): http://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/

It's also worth noting that you could already do this in _config.yml, this just lets you split that up.

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