Interesting Jekyll Gems Worth Exploring

Jekyll Plugin Purpose / Does    
jekyll-analytics Plugin to easily add web analytics to your jekyll site without modifying your templates. Supported are: Google Analytics, Piwik, Matomo, MPulse    
jekyll-archives Automatically generate post archives by dates, tags, and categories.    
jekyll-asciidoc A Jekyll plugin that converts the AsciiDoc source files in your site to HTML pages using Asciidoctor.    
jekyll-assets A drop-in Jekyll Plugin that provides an asset pipeline for JavaScript, CSS, SASS, SCSS. Based around Sprockets (from Rails) and just as powereful it provides everything you need to manage assets in Jekyll.    
jekyll-avatar A Jekyll plugin for rendering GitHub avatars    
jekyll-coffeescript A CoffeeScript converter for Jekyll.    
jekyll-commonmark-ghpages CommonMark generator for Jekyll    
jekyll-commonmark CommonMark generator for Jekyll    
jekyll-contentblocks Provides a mechanism for passing content up to the layout, like Rails’ content_for    
jekyll-default-layout Silently sets default layouts for Jekyll pages and posts    
jekyll-diagrams A Jekyll plugin with support for Blockdiag, Erd, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, PlantUML, Svgbob, Syntrax, Vega, Vega-Lite and WaveDrom.    
jekyll-email-protect Email protection liquid filter for Jekyll    
jekyll-feed A Jekyll plugin to generate an Atom feed of your Jekyll posts    
jekyll-gist Liquid tag for displaying GitHub Gists in Jekyll sites.    
jekyll-github-metadata The site.github namespace    
jekyll-include-cache A Jekyll plugin to cache the rendering of Liquid includes    
jekyll-last-modified-at A liquid tag for Jekyll to indicate the last time a file was modified.    
jekyll-linkpreview Jekyll tag plugin to generate link preview    
jekyll-liquify A Jekyll filter that can parse Liquid in front matter.    
jekyll-maps Google Maps support in Jekyll blog to easily embed maps with posts’ locations    
jekyll-mentions @mention support for your Jekyll site    
jekyll-menus Menus (site navigation) for your Jekyll website    
jekyll-minifier Jekyll Minifier using htmlcompressor for html, uglifier for js and css    
jekyll-octicons A jekyll liquid plugin that makes including svg Octicons simple.    
[jekyll-optional-front-matter RubyGems.org your community gem host](https://rubygems.org/gems/jekyll-optional-front-matter/versions/0.3.2A) Jekyll plugin to make front matter optional for Markdown files
jekyll-paginate-v2 An enhanced zero-configuration in-place replacement for the now decomissioned built-in jekyll-paginate gem. This pagination gem offers full backwards compatability as well as a slew of new frequently requested features with minimal additional site and page configuration. Optional features include auto-generation of paginated collection, tag and category pages.    
jekyll-paginate Built-in Pagination Generator for Jekyll    
jekyll-readme-index A Jekyll plugin to render a project’s README as the site’s index.    
jekyll-readme-index A Jekyll plugin to render a project’s README as the site’s index.    
jekyll-redirect-from Seamlessly specify multiple redirection URLs for your pages and posts    
jekyll-relative-links A Jekyll plugin to convert relative links to markdown files to their rendered equivalents.    
jekyll-relative-links A Jekyll plugin to convert relative links to markdown files to their rendered equivalents.    
jekyll-sanity Patches to make Jekyll less insane and easier    
jekyll-scholar Jekyll-Scholar is for all the academic bloggers out there. It is a set of extensions for Jekyll the awesome, blog aware, static site generator; it formats your BibTeX bibliographies for the web using CSL citation styles and generally gives your blog posts citation super-powers.’    
jekyll-seo-tag A Jekyll plugin to add metadata tags for search engines and social networks to better index and display your site’s content.    
jekyll-sitemap Automatically generate a sitemap.xml for your Jekyll site.    
jekyll-spaceship A Jekyll plugin to provide powerful supports for table, mathjax, plantuml, mermaid, emoji, video, audio, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, spotify, soundcloud, etc.    
jekyll-swiss A bold typographic theme for Jekyll, inspired by Swiss design.    
jekyll-tabs Generate a tabbed interface on top of markup    
jekyll-tagging Jekyll plugin to automatically generate a tag cloud and tag pages.    
jekyll-titles-from-headings A Jekyll plugin to pull the page title from the first Markdown heading when none is specified.    
jekyll-toc Jekyll (Ruby static website generator) plugin which generates a Table of Contents for the page.    
kramdown kramdown is yet-another-markdown-parser but fast, pure Ruby, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.    
kramdown-asciidoc A kramdown extension for converting Markdown documents to AsciiDoc._    
kramdown-converter-pdf kramdown-converter-pdf uses Prawn to convert a kramdown document to PDF    
kramdown-man Allows you to write man pages for commands in pure Markdown and convert them to roff using Kramdown.    
kramdown-parser-gfm kramdown-parser-gfm provides a kramdown parser for the GFM dialect of Markdown    
kramdown-plantuml kramdown-plantuml allows you to use PlantUML syntax within fenced code blocks with Kramdown (Jekyll’s default Markdown parser).    
kramdown-rfc An RFCXML (RFC 799x) generating backend for Thomas Leitner’s “kramdown” markdown parser. Mostly useful for RFC writers.    
kramdown-rfc2629 An RFCXML (RFC 799x) generating backend for Thomas Leitner’s “kramdown” markdown parser. Mostly useful for RFC writers.