Want to create another _post directory in jekyll

Question

I want to create a author _layout that I could use to mount a list of all the author of a Jekyll powered site (in fact, a list of hosts of a podcast). I want this to be at

+ \
  + _posts
  + _includes
  + _layouts
  + _config.yml
  + authors <-- Here

In my Jekyll site, and I already saw that Jekyll render markdown files there.

However, I can't take the authors there and use it to build a list.

I'm using this code

<ul>
    {% for post in site.categories.authors %}
    <li><a href="{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

Any suggestion on how I should do what I want? I want the page to be generate to return the name of the hosts in a list, with links for each of them, like

<a href="/authors/foo">This guy</a>
<a href="/authors/bar">That guy</a>
<a href="/authors/baz">That other guy</a>

And the files to be rendered being at:

+ \
  + _posts
  + _includes
  + _layouts
  + _config.yml
  + authors
    + foo.md
    + bar.md
    + baz.md

Answer 1

If you want to use collections, you will need to configure them properly. But collections is useful when you need to add extra markdown files and you don't want them in _posts.

Check this answer if you want to go for collections.

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But what I believe what you need is Jekyll _data, not collections.

To do so, create a folder called _data in the site root and add file called authors.yml into that.

Then, you add to authors.yml the data you want to call:

- ref: 01
  name: Name Surname
  url: http://something.com

- ref: 02
  name: Name Surname 2
  url: http://somethingelse.com

Then call them via liquid:

{% for author in site.data.authors %}
<a href="{{ author.url }}">{{ author.name }}</a>
{% endfor %}

I'm sorry if I misunderstood your question.... I really hope to have helped!