option for tags

epwalsh · epwalsh · commit ce8ece5fc247 · 2016-07-27T16:46:42.000-05:00
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ To set up a GitHub Project page, simply fork this repository into a branch calle
 
 I wrote [a blog post](http://deanattali.com/2015/03/12/beautiful-jekyll-how-to-build-a-site-in-minutes/) describing some more advanced features that I used in my website that are applicable to any Jekyll site.  It describes how I used a custom URL for my site (deanattali.com instead of daattali.github.io), how to add a Google-powered search into your site, and provides a few more details about having an RSS feed. 
 
+Additionally, if you choose to deploy Jekyll on your own server (such as a DigitalOcean server), you can tell Jekyll to automatically categorize your blog posts by tags. You just need to set `show-tags: true` in `_config.yml`. Jekyll will then generate a new page for each unique tag which lists all of the posts that belong to that tag.
+
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diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ defaults:
       layout: "page"
       show-avatar: true
 
+# Tags (not recommended if you are deploying via GitHub pages, see README.md)
+show-tags: false
+
 # Exclude these files from production site
 exclude:
   - Gemfile
diff --git a/_layouts/tag_index.html b/_layouts/tag_index.html
@@ -31,9 +31,13 @@ <h4 class="post-subtitle">
 
     <div class="blog-tags">
       Tags: 
+      {% if site.show-tags %}
       {% for tag in post.tags %}
-      <a href="/tag/{{ tag }}">{{ tag }}</a>
+        <a href="/tag/{{ tag }}">{{ tag }}</a>
       {% endfor %}
+      {% else %}
+        {{ post.tags | join: ", " }}
+      {% endif %}
     </div>
   </article>
   {% endif %}
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
@@ -26,14 +26,15 @@ <h3 class="post-subtitle">
 	  <a href="{{ post.url | prepend: site.baseurl }}" class="post-read-more">[Read&nbsp;More]</a>
     </div>
 
-    {% if post.tags.size > 0 %}
+    {% if site.show-tags %}
     <div class="blog-tags">
       Tags: 
       {% for tag in post.tags %}
-      <a href="/tag/{{ tag }}">{{ tag }}</a>
+        <a href="/tag/{{ tag }}">{{ tag }}</a>
       {% endfor %}
     </div>
     {% endif %}
+
    </article>
   {% endfor %}
 </div>
