Tags for posts

[hollunder]

Hi,
I write about various topics. It would be nice if I could tag my posts and the user could then select the tag and get a list of posts with those tags.
I think that this is the sanest solution to the 'too many posts' problem.

[Fizzadar]

@hollunder I really like this idea! There's a few things to think about, brain dumping:

• What URL (/tag/<tag>?) - and how does this affect creating a pages/tag.md
• Pagination for the tagged posts (archive could also use this)
• Archive could share logic and simply apply to all tags
• Would need ability to list tags somewhere

[hollunder]

Glad you like it :)

• I do not know what you mean by pagination
• I did not think about the URL, but your suggestion sounds fine.
• I do not know what you mean by "how does this affect creating a pages/tag.md". Not at all perhaps?

I think that pretty much the same logic could be used everywhere.

• Landing page: lists the last N posts of all tags in reverse chronological order
• Archive: lists all posts of all tags in reverse chronological order
• page: lists all (or N?) tags of in reverse chronological order

As for displaying, how about a special piece of markdown called --tags--?
I am far from a wizard with web technologies, but I guess if --tags-- inserts a list of links to the pages then it could be displayed in different ways.

• In the header or some sort of side bar
• On a page
• probably a number of other ways

I guess one may need proper CSS or moustache code for some of that stuff.

Thinking probably too far ahead of myself: if I dedicate a page to tags it might be nice to add a short description to each one. No idea how that could be done. I have my doubts that it is necessary, it is just an idea.