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title: "Learned how to jekyll: the projects page"
date: "2014-10-27"
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After a quick question in the Jekyll IRC chat room i was told to use the _data folder instead of using the main site config. The main site config is only read on startup while the data you store under the \_data folder is watched.

You can create a `filename.yml` file in the \_data folder and it will then be accessible in liquid and any ruby plugins you might have as `site.data['filename']`

Now my projects page is fully automated to complement my automatic deployment system.