# Featured post and popular post

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/featured-post-and-popular-post/634>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 10, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/featured-post-and-popular-post/634 "2017-06-10T11:34:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![yashumittal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/yashumittal/32/1260_2.png) [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/featured-post-and-popular-post/634/1 "2017-06-10T11:34:25Z")

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How to add the category of featured post and popular post?

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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:** [June 10, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/featured-post-and-popular-post/634/2 "2017-06-10T17:23:35Z")

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not sure there is a way to do popular posts as it is a static site.

As for featured, you could add a front matter variable - `featured: true` and then loop thru that to dispaly featured posts. Probably lots of ways to do it (catgories, tags, front matter).

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**Author:** ![yashumittal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/yashumittal/32/1260_2.png) [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 10:40am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/featured-post-and-popular-post/634/3 "2017-06-11T10:40:33Z")

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What is the difference between the categories and tags?

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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:** [June 11, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/featured-post-and-popular-post/634/4 "2017-06-11T15:23:03Z")

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not much really, as far as I know they have the same behavior, just an extra way to categorize things. For me a category would be something like Photoshop, and a tag would be layers, or tools, or actions.

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**Author:** ![yashumittal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/yashumittal/32/1260_2.png) [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/featured-post-and-popular-post/634/5 "2017-06-11T18:07:34Z")

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Okay.

So, how we add tags to a blog posts and and we make them show.