Trouble Managing Blog Post Categories in Jekyll – Any Tips?

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Hello everyone!

I have recently started using Jekyll for my personal blog and, while I appreciate the simplicity and flexibility of it, I am having difficulty managing categories for my posts. I am trying to clear up my content by categories but am confused about how to properly organize my config.yml and post front matter to make it work seamlessly. I have seen some tutorials on this and some mention categories: [category1, category2] and others just a string.

Is there a way to list category pages automatically, without having to create one manually for every category? I have tried some plugins to do this, but I would prefer a native Jekyll solution, since I am hosting on GitHub Pages

I will appreciate any advice or working examples from your Jekyll setups; how do you all manage categories and get good clean navigation / index pages for them?

Thank you in advance to the great Jekyll community - your replies in previous threads have already helped me tons! :raising_hands:

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For what it’s worth, we also manage categories manually.

We have page for each category, which essentially grabs posts that match the category of the page.

At first I thought this was a bit overkill, but I’ve found several times now where I want something slightly different for one or two categories, where I would have had to either make new templates or litter the code with if statements.