Get front matter data of specific pages into table in Jekyll

Question

I want to get some information from the front matter ({{ page.title }} and {{ page.status }}) for some of my site pages into a table on my index page.

How should I do this?

<table>
<tr>
<td>Page title</td> <td>Page status</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>{{ page-name-1.title }}</td><td>{{ page-status-1.status }}</td>         
</tr>
<tr>
<td>{{ page-name-2.title }}</td><td>{{ page-status-2.status }}</td>         
</tr>
</table>

Answer 1

You can get a specific page from the site.pages collection with the Liquid filter where of Jekyll.

Given I have a page foo.md with this front matter:

---
title: foo
status: bar
---

Then this:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Page title</td> 
    <td>Page status</td>
  </tr>
  {% assign page_info = site.pages | where: 'name', 'foo.md' %}
  <tr>
    <td>{{ page_info[0].title }}</td>
    <td>{{ page_info[0].status }}</td>         
  </tr>
</table>

Will render as

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Page title</td> 
    <td>Page status</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>foo</td>
    <td>bar</td>         
  </tr>
</table>

---

Just repeat it for any page that have an interest for you:

{% assign pages_info = 'foo.md,index.md' | split: ',' %}
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Page title</td> 
    <td>Page status</td>
  </tr>
  {% for page_name in pages_info %}
    {% assign page_info = site.pages | where: 'name', page_name %}
    <tr>
      <td>{{ page_info[0].title }}</td>
      <td>{{ page_info[0].status }}</td>         
    </tr>
  {% endfor %}
</table>