Category pages on Github pages

[davatron5000]

Need to either find a workaround or abandon this solution :(

[davatron5000]

Computer says no. 😢

@davatron5000 @github No. Pages doesn't allow custom Extensions/Plugins.

— Erik Runyon (@erunyon) January 11, 2013

[mattmcmanus]

Yeah. I've had that bite me in the past. There is two solutions. Check out jekyll-bootstrap which is supposedly 100% github pages compliant. Here it it's category page: https://github.com/plusjade/jekyll-bootstrap/blob/master/categories.html

Or you could switch this over to octopress which has a nice deploy script for github but does all the rendering before you push.

[davatron5000]

@mattmcmanus Does that Jekyll Bootstrap then have individual category pages? Like /category/how-to/ or anything like that?

[davatron5000]

@mattmcmanus Okay. Still thinking about this. My thoughts at the moment:

• Let's strip out any reference to categories for launch.
• Re-class this as a "Feature" not a "Bug"
• Then we can assign it to you and you can get it done at your leisure.
  • Maybe we could even just do a javascript filter'y sort of category system on the archives page?

[mattmcmanus]

It doesn't look like it. Here is an example: http://themes.jekyllbootstrap.com/categories.html

Here is an example of an octopress category page: http://mattmcman.us/blog/categories/life/

I think you're right though. Mark this as a feature and we can figure out a long term solution later. It's trivial, however, to add categories to the individual posts, so that should be done now.

[mattmcmanus]

@davatron5000 How do you feel about the current archive page solution to this? Did you have more ideas for a dedicated category page?

[davatron5000]

This looks/works great for me! Let's close this.