# Category pages for Jekyll

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/category-pages-for-jekyll/359>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [March 25, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/category-pages-for-jekyll/359 "2017-03-25T02:20:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ninja123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@ninja123](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ninja123)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/category-pages-for-jekyll/359/1 "2017-03-25T02:20:33Z")

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What about the categories I’m adding to my posts? Are they just for show, or can I generate category counts and pages?

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**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/category-pages-for-jekyll/359/2 "2017-03-26T01:20:15Z")

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you can do most anything you want with tags and categories, though you have to make the page(s) - jekyll doesn’t auto generate a category list page or anything.

Here is a random google search result of an example:

> <https://gist.github.com/Phlow/a0e3fa686eb259fe7f76>

(I changed this from my initial link as the more I read that link I wasn’t sure I liked it)

I’m not particularly sure what you want to do so not sure what else to tell you. I think there is a plugin that can do a lot, but I have never used it.