Categories not being displayed

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Hi, I am brand new to Jekyll (like 3 hours new).

I installed Jekyll in Fedora 41 using the single command:

sudo dnf install rubygem-jekyll

(I mention this because maybe it has something to do with my issue - ie an incomplete installation).

I installed and then ran a new Jekyll site, did not modify anything and viewed it in my browser and went to view the default sample post:

Welcome to Jekyll!

The markdown file for this post, 2025-04-02-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown, contains the frontmatter:

layout: post
title: “Welcome to Jekyll!”
date: 2025-04-02 15:14:20 -0400
categories: jekyll update

But when I view this post in my browser, I do not see the categories displayed anywhere in the page.

I have just spend the last 2 hours trying to figure this out, doing all kinds of searching, reading the docs, also installing a new theme which has the same problem, etc and I dont know what else to do.

What am I missing?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks ahead of time.

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I’m not sure they do much by default - though if you check the url and the post has a category I think you will see it in the url.

Jekyll will not make you a categories page for you - that part is up to you. You can edit the layout to show the post category if needed.

This for the default minima theme, not sure about others.

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@rdyar - Thanks for taking the time to let me know :slight_smile: