categories page empty

[ghost]

before you submit your issue, please delete all the example code in template

Environment Info

Node version(node -v)

v4.5.0

Your site _config.yml

# Hexo Configuration
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Your theme _config.yml
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Hexo Configuration

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Plugin version(`npm ls --depth 0`)

hexo-vanilla-site@0.0.0 ~/hexo-vanilla-site
├── hexo@3.1.1
├── hexo-generator-archive@0.1.4
├── hexo-generator-category@0.1.3
├── hexo-generator-index@0.2.0
├── hexo-generator-tag@0.2.0
├── hexo-renderer-ejs@0.1.1
├── hexo-renderer-marked@0.2.10
├── hexo-renderer-stylus@0.3.1
└── hexo-server@0.1.3

## For BUG

- BUG description
- the way to reproduce
- log with hexo <command> --debug

## For question

just push question
Categories page empty

## For feature request

just push feature request

[ghost]

1. I created a page with the command: hexo new page categories
2. In source/categories/index.md, I added type: categories in the front matter
3. In the _config.yml of the theme, I added in the menu: Categories: /categories
   but my page is always empty !
   What is missing ?

[NoahDragon]

Have you add categories in your post front matters?

---
layout: post
title: Why Sun is the center of our solar system
date: '2014-07-02 22:44:44 -0400'
comments: true
categories:
  - Solar System
  - Javascript
  - Simulation
---

[ghost]

yes but like that:
categories: Javascript

[NoahDragon]

Sorry, may I ask why you need to create categories folder and page?

My theme is FreeMind, it requires to create those to set up categories.

I also tried landscape theme, it works fine on my machine.

[ghost]

Because I want to access to the categories from the menu. It's my choice !
Hexo doc says to modify _config.yml of the theme and to create folder in source folder.
The conclusion is: the categories cannot be displayed from the menu but only from the sidebar with the default theme. Am I wrong ?

[NoahDragon]

I just tested on the Landscape theme, I think it is not support category page. Because this is not an issue about hexo, but it's theme. I will move the issue to there.

[xitengfei]

I'm using icarus theme, and there is a layout file "categories.ejs" in the this theme directory, so I can create categories page by simply "hexo new page categories" and then change the layout of this page to 'categories'.