An easy way to support tags in a jekyll blog

Here is a solution with alphabetically sorted tags on a single page.
It uses Liquid only, which means that it works on GitHub Pages:

{% capture tags %}  {% for tag in site.tags %}    {{ tag[0] }}  {% endfor %}{% endcapture %}{% assign sortedtags = tags | split:' ' | sort %}{% for tag in sortedtags %}  <h3 id="{{ tag }}">{{ tag }}</h3>  <ul>  {% for post in site.tags[tag] %}    <li><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li>  {% endfor %}  </ul>{% endfor %}

You can see it in action here.

EDIT:

There's also a way to generate a separate page for each tag without plugins (which will work on GitHub Pages).

I have a more detailed explanation on my blog:
Separate pages per tag/category with Jekyll (without plugins)

First, you need a new layout file:

/_layouts/tagpage.html:

---layout: default---<h1>{{ page.tag }}</h1><ul>{% for post in site.tags[page.tag] %}  <li>    {{ post.date | date: "%B %d, %Y" }}: <a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a>  </li>{% endfor %}</ul>

With this layout file, you can add a new tag page by adding a new file with just two lines of YAML front-matter.

Here's an example for the jekyll tag:

/tags/jekyll/index.html:

---layout: tagpagetag: jekyll---

The only disadvantage of this approach: each time you use a new tag for the first time, you have to remember to create a new two-line file for it.

To generate the root index file (i.e. the list of tags that links to /tags/jekyll/index.html etc.), you can use a similar solution like the one on top of this answer where I generate a single page with alphebetically sorted tags:

{% capture tags %}  {% for tag in site.tags %}    {{ tag[0] }}  {% endfor %}{% endcapture %}{% assign sortedtags = tags | split:' ' | sort %}{% for tag in sortedtags %}    <a href="/tags/{{ tag }}/">{{ tag }}</a><br>{% endfor %}

This will generate a list of links like this:

<ul>    <li><a href="/tags/.net/">.net</a></li>    <li><a href="/tags/authentication/">authentication</a></li>    <li><a href="/tags/backup/">backup</a></li></ul>

Note that this solution uses a blank to split tags, so it doesn't work when your tags contain blanks and Yevgeniy Brikman's comment applies here as well.

This gist will generate a page per category for you: https://gist.github.com/524748

It uses a Jekyll Generator plugin, plus a Page subclass.

Have a look at sites using jekyll. There are a few custom forks which have implemented tagging functionality, hopefully also in the way you want :-)