Tags in Jekyll
(2014-10-13)
If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn’t be taking so long in trivial tasks. But, then again, if I knew what I was doing beforehand, I wouldn’t be having anywhere near as much fun. After all, it’s a learning experience. Anyways, I know that I can find old posts better if I can apply categories, and I never really liked the single-category-per-item mindset that is necessary for folders to work. Therefore, setting up a framework for using tags.
I am using a setup similar to that given in minddust.com’s example. The advantage is that I do not need to compile the jekyll site locally, nor do I need to install any additional plugins. The downside is that I need to make modifications whenever I add a new type of tag. On the bright side, there are only two changes that need to be made.
- Adding an entry in
_data/tags.ymlfor the new tag. - Adding an empty template in
blog/tagsfor the new tag.
When adding a new post, any tags listed in the front-matter block will be added to the appropriate index.