Elisp To Create A New Blog Post In Jekyll

Here’s some cheap and cheerful elisp to start a new blog post in Jekyll.

(defun new-post (title)
  "Start a new blog post"
  (setq path "~/path/to/_posts/")
  (interactive "sTitle: ")
  (find-file (concat path (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d")
    "-" (replace-regexp-in-string " " "-" title) ".md"))
  (insert "---
layout: post
category : nil
tags : []
---
")
)

Just prompts you for a post title. Replaces spaces with hyphens, opens the file and inserts the YAML front matter.