Example of referring to authors using Jekyll's _data structures. You can reference the data in a collection in a variety of ways. Line 13 of post.html shows you can: 1. look up a value in the "author" collection relative to a variable defined in the YAML of a page using the layout 2. explicitly naming the data item in code 3. a combination of th…

2014-01-16-single-post.md

layout	title	date	author
post	My New Post	2014-01-16 23:05	david

This is my great post with the correct poster.

author.yaml

david:
  name: David Hutchison
  bio: I am a Software Developer

post.html

---
layout: main
---
<article class="post">
  {% assign post=page %}
	<header>
		<h2>
			{% if post.date %}<span class="meta">
				<time datetime="{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }}" pubdate="" data-updated="true" title="{{ post.date | date_to_string }}">{{ post.date | date_to_string }}</time>
			</span>{% endif%}
			<a href="{{ post.url }}" class="title">{{ post.title }}</a>
		</h2>
		{% if post.author %}<p>By {{ site.data.author[post.author]['name'] }} / {{ site.data.author.david.name }} / {{ site.data.author[post.author].name }}</p>{% endif %}
	</header>
	<article>
		{{ content }}
	</article>
</article>