Add categories / tags to blog post

[bethschechter]

As a way to sort chapter blog posts by chapter. @reidab already updated the site so that categories are enabled. cc @geografa

[almccon]

So then we would add some code to a chapter's page (such as maptime.github.io/nullisland) that would only show blog posts for that chapter's category.

[almccon]

We need to make sure that there is a fixed and URL-friendly slug for each local chapter. This slug could potentially be saved in the master geojson file.

[rhewitt22]

Categories have been added; no tags yet.

@geografa what is the differentiation between the posts and events layouts?

[geografa]

@rhewitt22 Not much, it's a holdover from the starter repo. Events are like blog posts except they have RSVP links.

[rhewitt22]

How do the rsvp links work? Are they just URLs? Could just use an event front matter variable that is conditionally displayed.

I generally try to keep layouts to a minimum because they're like pringles -- once you pop you just can't stop.

[geografa]

Ha. True. If an event page has a rsvp in the yml then it gets displayed. Each MD file in _posts should contain a category that determines what kind of post it is. I think we'll get more utility out of this as we grow (i.e. blog, event, tutroial, etc.).

@bethschechter back to original intent of this issue: was this for having chapter's blog posts on the front page? We could still stream blog post through a feed of some sort. Perhaps we need another ticket to hammer out what exactly we want on the yml Front matter.

[rhewitt22]

@geografa That's what I was thinking -- they're all posts, just of different categories.

I can't say that I've seen anything for consuming RSS into posts for jekyll. If it's possible it would probably be done through a _plugin which are disabled on github pages as Jekyll is run with the --safe flag. The other option would be to use the GitHub API, but to stay on top of all the chapters popping up that wouldn't be a fun task to maintain. Chapters that build their page within this repo would give you the ability to grab their posts out of the box.

[mattsayler]

Could we add like a 'posts-path' attribute to the chapters json, since that
has to be maintained anyway?

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Roy Hewitt notifications@github.com
wrote:

@geografa https://github.com/geografa That's what I was thinking --
they're all posts, just of different categories.

I can't say that I've seen anything for consuming RSS into posts for
jekyll. If it's possible it would probably be done through a _plugin
which are disabled on github pages as Jekyll is run with the --safe flag.
The other option would be to use the GitHub API, but to stay on top of all
the chapters popping up that wouldn't be a fun task to maintain. Chapters
that build their page within this repo would give you the ability to grab
their posts out of the box.

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[geografa]

This ticket may be getting a little spread out. We know have categories for all posts so I think we can close this. The issue of slugs/paths for each chapter is a different one so maybe somebody can open a ticket on that. @bethschechter good to close?

[lyzidiamond]

@geografa We should make sure the other sub-issues are added as issues before we close. :)

[geobrando]

Possible workaround for implementing tags in a gh-pages hosted jekyll site.

http://www.minddust.com/post/tags-and-categories-on-github-pages/

[geobrando]

Used the example in the above post to prototype this

• Example of a tagged blog post - http://brandonknight.net/sandbox/blog/2015/04/27/help-HOT/
• Tags link to pages like this - http://brandonknight.net/sandbox/blog/tag/openstreetmap/
• To tag a post, just add a tag name array to the frontmatter like this
• To add new tags, you need to add
  • A markdown file like this
  • A new entry in tags.yml.

We could also just adapt and use the existing tags we've created for tutorials if we don't want to keep two separate lists of tags