I am currently using Jekyll to run a small site that lists events. I only want to show current and future events on my website. I am using Jekyll's blog posts to list events. A post represents an event.
What I want to do is add a line to the .md file that reads "published: false" when a post is past the current date. That way the post is automatically unpublished the day after the event is over.
I am able to list the events in the correct order (listed by event date) and get the site's current date. So I can write an IF statement to compare each event to the current date to see if it matches my question.
{% comment %}
Displays all of the people from the _date2/ collection in a list. Also includes a link to post pages.
{% endcomment %}
<div class="container py-5">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-12">
<h2>Special Events</h2>
<hr class="m-0">
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
{% assign currentDate = site.time %}
{% assign sorted = (site.date2 | sort: 'event_date') %}
{% for item in sorted %}
{% if item.event_date >= currentDate %}
<div class="col-12 mt-3">
<div class="row d-flex align-items-center">
<div class="pr-0 pt-2 px-sm-3 col-3 col-md-4">
{% if item.banner_image and item.banner_image != "" %}
<img alt="{{ item.title }}" src="{{ item.banner_image | absolute_url }}" class="img-fluid">
{% else %}
<img alt="{{ item.title }}" src="{{ '/img/placeholder.png' | absolute_url }}" class="img-fluid">
{% endif %}
</div>
<div class="col-9 col-md-8">
<h3 class="mb-0 mb-md-2">{{ item.event_date | date: "%A - %B %-d, %Y" }}</h3>
<h4 class="mb-0 mb-md-2"><a href="{{ item.url | absolute_url }}">{{ item.title }}</a></h4>
<p class="mb-0 mb-md-3">{{ item.sub_heading }}</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
{% else %}
Append "published: false" to file
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</div>
</div>
I do not have any results yet but I am trying to read documentation to figure this out. I am hoping to hear from the community mainly because I feel I am asking the wrong questions on Google. Any direction on this will be greatly appreciated.
