Tag Page Generator for Jekyll Blogs

How to use

1. Install the prerequisite files into your Jekyll blog.
2. Add the sample workflow to your Jekyll blog directory.

Options

Option	Default Value	Description	Required
source	n/a	the url of the generated tags.json	true
destination	n/a	Relative path to write tag pages	true

Sample workflow

name: Generate the set of tag pages.
on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  generate-tag-pages:
    name: Generate the set of tag pages.
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: hendrixjoseph/jekyll-tag-page-generator-action@master
        with:
          source: "https://www.joehxblog.com/data/tags.json"
          destination: "./tags/"

Prerequisites

tags.json template

---
---

{% assign tags = site.tags | sort %}
{"tags":[{% for tag in tags %}
{"name":"{{ tag[0] }}","slug":"{{ tag[0] | slugify }}","postcount":{{ tag[1] | size }}}{% unless forloop.last %},{% endunless %}{% endfor %}]}

./layouts/tag_posts.html

---
layout: default
---

<span class="posts">
{% for post in site.tags[page.tag] %}<article class="post">
<h2 class="post-header">
<a href="{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
</h2>
<hr />
<div>
<span class="date">{{ post.date | date: "%B %e, %Y" }}</span>
<nav class="tags">{% assign tags = post.tags | sort %}{% for tag in tags %}<a href="/tags/{{ tag | slugify }}/">{{ tag }}</a>{% unless forloop.last %}|{% endunless %}{% endfor %}</nav>
</div>
<hr />
<div class="sample entry">
{{ post.excerpt }}
</div>     
</article>
{% endfor %}
</span>