Configuring Jekyll Tags
Details on how to overcome the lack of an obvious Jekyll feature.
Now that I'm beginning to accumulate posts, I've setup post tags. This includes both HTML pages & Atom feeds per individual tag.
Doing so wasn't easy, as the official Jekyll documentation tells you tags are supported but doesn't indicate how to build out the above pages. Luckily, I found the jekyll-tagging plugin, which works nicely. I followed its instructions, only to then realize it wasn't one of the gems officially supportedby my host Github Pages. So back to the drawing board for that portion.
I also had to modify some Minima templates, so they would include tags on the page display itself. This required some extra fumbling to setup new layouts within my _layouts directory, then add the following to my post.html template (thanks to this helpful snippet from Stack Overflow):
{% for post in site.posts %}
{% if post.tags != empty %}
<b>Tags:</b>
{% for tag in post.tags %}
<a href="{{site.baseurl}}/{{site.tag_page_dir}}/{{tag|slugify}}">{{ tag }}</a>
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
As mentioned above, the tag-specific pages don't yet exist, so clicking on a tag will take you to 404 land. Now I remember why I was paying for a blog host instead of DIY.
Onward and upward!
