Added newpost plugin. Creates a new jekyll post with the current date, and a user specified title. Even fills in the YAML Front Matter. Sorry if that seemed like bragging, I just wanted everyone to notice so they could make use of it better...

plugins/jekyll.plugins.bash

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 newpost() {
 
+	# 'cd' into the local jekyll root
+
+	cd "$JEKYLL_LOCAL_ROOT/_posts"
+
 	# Get the date for the new post's filename
 
 	FNAME_DATE=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
@@ -8,5 +12,45 @@ newpost() {
 
 	read -p "Enter title of the new post: " POST_TITLE
 
+	# Convert the spaces in the title to hyphens for use in the filename
 
+	FNAME_POST_TITLE=`echo $POST_TITLE | tr ' ' "-"`
+
+	# Now, put it all together for the full filename
+
+	FNAME="$FNAME_DATE-$FNAME_POST_TITLE.$JEKYLL_FORMATTING"
+
+	# And, finally, create the actual post file. But we're not done yet...
+
+	touch "$FNAME"
+
+	# Write a little stuff to the file for the YAML Front Matter
+
+	echo "---" >> $FNAME
+
+	# Now we have to get the date, again. But this time for in the header (YAML Front Matter) of
+	# the file
+
+	YAML_DATE=$(date "+%B %d %X")
+
+	# Echo the YAML Formatted date to the post file
+
+	echo "date: $YAML_DATE" >> $FNAME
+
+	# Echo the original post title to the YAML Front Matter header
+
+	echo "title: $POST_TITLE" >> $FNAME
+
+	# And, now, echo the "post" layout to the YAML Front Matter header
+
+	echo "layout: post" >> $FNAME
+
+	# Close the YAML Front Matter Header
+
+	echo "---" >> $FNAME
+	echo >> $FNAME
+
+	# Open the file in your favorite editor
+
+	$EDITOR $FNAME
 }