In my last post I mentioned that I preferred my list of categories to go along the top of the summary of posts rather than in a column to the left or right. I also wanted them to appear in the same colours that were used in the blog posts. This is the code that I used:

The more posts I write in this blog the more I see the need for filtering. Now I think I see better the difference between categories and tags.

This looked like it was going to be straightforward, but it took me ages to sort this out. Because of the nature of what Jekyll plugins are allowed in GitHub Pages, it is not possible to create tag and category pages. The solution from Stephan Groß - slightly adapted by me - is to create a dummy file for each tag in the folder /blog/tags with a name like tagname.md with an entry like this example for the tag GitHub-pages:

The last post (!) got me almost there with the look I wanted for the category and tags list in the post, but the look wasn’t quite right. A bit more delving in Stephan’s site showed me two areas where I needed to add some styling.

I have always been one to flit from subject to subject - both inside and outside a work environment, life is generally like that. Given that a blog (with a little cheating here and there) is generally written chronologically, I feel the need to be able to identify themes and topics so that all the stuff on a single subject can be gathered together for a comprehensive read (if only by me).