Jekyll: Include a file from directory outside of _includes

Question

I have an directory called /patterns in my Jekyll site, whose structure generally looks generally like this:

_includes _layouts _site /patterns index

Answer 1

In your _config.yml, you can add additional directories like so:

includes:
- patterns

Just as simple as that!

In action here on my Jekyll site: https://github.com/pschfr/pschfr.github.io/blob/master/_config.yml