My first plugin for Jekyll

August 27th, 2012

Okay, I wouldn’t really call it my first real plugin, but I took the Youtube plugin I use and modified it so you can embed videos from Vimeo with a simple Liquid tag. That’s usually the way I learn stuff anyways (even though I haven’t really wrapped my head around Ruby yet) so I figured that it’d be interesting to see if I could make it work even though my modifications weren’t that significant. Maybe I’ll pick it up some day.

Source code

module Jekyll
  class Vimeo < Liquid::Tag
    @@width = 500
    @@height = 281

    def initialize(name, id, tokens)
      super
      @id = id
    end

    def render(context)
      %(<iframe width="#{@@width}" height="#{@@height}"
      src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/#{@id}" frameborder="0"
      webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>)
    end
  end
end

Liquid::Template.register_tag('vimeo', Jekyll::Vimeo)

Liquid tag

    {% vimeo 12345678 %}