Minimal mistakes: Is it possible to catgorise pages?

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I have set up a Minimal Mistakes website with Github Pages https://dsm-uts.github.io/data-code/ from [https://github.com/DSM-UTS/data-code](this repository).

I want to use categories and tags also with pages (I am not interested in using posts since the page is for a university course). I can successfully add files to the _posts directory but when I add a file to the _page directory with the same Front Matter used in a post the page is not searchable and doesn’t appear in the category page.

I tried adding include: ['_pages'] to my config file but without any result.

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Make sure include config lacks the s if your directory lacks it.

Have a look at the forums. There are at least two discussions around categories or tags on non post pages

You can use some jekyll templating to iterate over categories. There is a jquery solution too.

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Also there are plugins (won’t work on gh pages without CI effort on GH Actions)

And you can find more plugins and blog post articles

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My solution on this question was to use Collections - for example _cars as a folder and _dogs as a folder and you can iterate over items in each (check Collections in the Jekyll docs)

That approach is more elegant in a way than post categories as you have to update every post in a category in order to rename a category. But if you use a folder and configure you collection in config YAML file then it is easier to rename.

Tags are not so easy because a page can have tags so collections don’t make sense. That won’t affect you but it will give context for the links above since solving tags and categories is very different