Is there a best practice for using (or not using) multi word tag names?

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Is there a best practice for using (or not using) multi word tag names ?

My guess is that it’s ok but one should separate words with hyphens rather than spaces.

So a tag might be using-spaces in preference to using spaces.

I think spaces might work but is likely to lead to problems so best avoided. This issue was discussed on StackOverflow.

In this context “multi” probably equates to 2.

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same thing happens with categories.

Towards the bottom of this thread someone had a clever idea to use a data file to map the slugified url.
https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-help/issues/129

I kinda like your links answer though - to url encode it. Is there something wrong with that?

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Wouldn’t URL encoding would require modifying template code, which I potentially don’t have control over ?

I actually don’t mind the hyphen idea, it doesn’t look too bad and doesn’t require special coding attention.

I agree it applies to categories too. I had thought of that but decided not to over-complicate the question :slight_smile:

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{{ tag | slugify }}
It could solve the space issue for url