How can I access un-rendered (markdown) content in Jekyll with liquid tags?

I ended up renaming my .md file to .html so they don't get rendered by the MarkDown renderer.

Here's the trouble that I think you'll have: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/master/lib/jekyll/convertible.rb https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/master/lib/jekyll/site.rb

From my reading, for a given post/page self.content is replaced by the result of running self.content through Markdown and Liquid, at line 79 in convertible.rb:

self.content = Liquid::Template.parse(self.content).render(payload, info)

Posts are rendered before pages, seen at lines 37-44 and 197-211 in site.rb:

def process
  self.reset
  self.read
  self.generate
  self.render
  self.cleanup
  self.write
end

... ...

def render
  payload = site_payload
  self.posts.each do |post|
    post.render(self.layouts, payload)
  end

  self.pages.each do |page|
    page.render(self.layouts, payload)
  end

  self.categories.values.map { |ps| ps.sort! { |a, b| b <=> a } }
  self.tags.values.map { |ps| ps.sort! { |a, b| b <=> a } }
rescue Errno::ENOENT => e
  # ignore missing layout dir
end

By the time you get to rendering this page, self.content has been rendered to HTML - so it isn't a case of stopping it rendering. It's already done.

However, Generators (https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Plugins) run before the render stage, so, as far as I can tell from reading the source, you should be able to fairly trivially write a generator which will duplicate self.content into some attribute (such as self.raw_content) which you can later access as raw Markdown in your templates {{ page.raw_content }}.