Jekyll Content Plumbing: Permalinks, Reading Time, Excerpts, and Redirects
The invisible infrastructure behind a Jekyll blog — how permalink structure, reading time estimates, custom excerpt separators, pagination, and redirect handling all work together. These aren't glamorous features, but getting them wrong breaks SEO, confuses readers, and creates maintenance headaches.
Your Jekyll Sitemap Is 60% Garbage
I audited my Jekyll sitemap and found that 262 of 434 URLs were auto-generated tag pages, category pages, and pagination — most with a single post. Here's how to clean it up without losing anything.