After doing my initial post yesterday I realised it'd be useful to have tags (or categories, whatever your preferred nomenclature) support. It's an easy way for a user to quickly find everything relating to, say, Pretzel without having to read about cats. How do we go about getting such a feature? Remeember that Pretzel is a static blog engine. Everything is generated offline on your computer and then uploaded to your host (in my case, Github Pages) so there's no hitting a database to pull back the relevant files.
If you investigate a little bit you'll find that when you're viewing an individual post the template used to generate the static HTML is _layouts/post.html which seems to have some code relat...
Several years ago now Scott Hanselman wrote a blog post titled Your Blog is the Engine of Community. The basic premise of it, for those too lazy to read it, was that you should own your own content. Sites like Twitter and Facebook are intrinsically transient and, perhaps more importantly, owned by someone else. "That makes sense!" I thought. And so I had a look about on the internet came across Github Pages had a quick play and... forgot about it. And then today a friend of mine was looking at ditching Wordpress for their own blog and asked if I had any suggestions. I gave a half hearted reply about something like Github Pages and then... thought about it... and thought I should finally get my act together and finish playing with them myself.
My initial issue last time I looked into Github Pages was that ...