How to display first N posts in Jekyll

Question

I'm using Jekyll 2 for my blog. I'm also using jekyll-paginate to display the first 5 posts in the home page.

Now I would like to stop using jekyll-paginate, since it's polluting the sitemap with pages I don't want.

This is how my home page looks like, after removing the pagination:

---
layout: default
---


  {% assign index = true %}
  {% for post in site.posts %}
  {% assign content = post.content %}
    
      {% include article.html %}
    
  {% endfor %}

This displays all the posts, but I only want the first 5. In Ruby you can do .take(5) or .first(5), so I tried that, but it doesn't work.

How do I display only the 5 most recent posts?

user_465082 · Answer

You may use the limit parameter in a for loop to do this:


{% for post in site.posts limit:5 %}
   
      {% include article.html %}
    
{% end %}

docs: https://shopify.github.io/liquid/tags/iteration/#limit

How to display first N posts in Jekyll

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