How to display an excerpt from a single post using Jekyll

Question

I'm creating a blog site using Jekyll and I want to add a short "about" section on the homepage. Instead of creating a separate paragraph, I'm going to create an "About Me" post (about-me.md) and insert an excerpt from that post on the homepage in its place (beneath it will be a link to read the rest of the article).

The only information I can find online is about the "latest posts" section utilizing the 'for' loop to show the 5 (or more) recent posts. I can't find anything else in the Jekyll documentation that explains how to display an excerpt from one specific post.

I've tried changing

{{ post.excerpt }}

to

{{ about-me.excerpt }}

but to no avail.

Below is the 'recent posts' implementation:

<div class="about-section">
  <h1>About Me</h1>
  <ul>
  {% for post in site.posts %}
    <li>
      <a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
      {{ post.excerpt }}
    </li>
  {% endfor %}
  </ul>
</div>

This works to display the recent posts including an excerpt. I need to only display the excerpt from the 'about-me.md' post immediately under the title.

Answer 1

Make sure the YML/front matter of your about-me post looks like this:

---
title: About me
featured: true
---

The content of your post...

And make sure the home page layout looks like this:

 <div class="about-section"> <h1>About Me</h1> <ul> {% assign featuredposts = site.posts | where:'featured','true' %} {% for post in featuredposts limit:1 %} <li> <a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a> {{ post.excerpt }} </li> {% endfor %} </ul> </div>