Tips I learned about Jekyll today

This is a short post intended to take note of the changes I made to this blog today.

Today’s learning tips

1. Categories vs Tags
   When I started using Jekyll up until today, I didn’t understand the difference. Now I do, and for the time being I think I will use both categories and tags in my posts. Maybe I will want to organize via one or the other in the future. Today I added a Categories page. Here is the link I followed to teach me the basics.

2. Permalinks
   I knew I had to update my permalink style. I followed this easy guide. Now my permalink style looks like this in my _config.yml

permalink: /:categories/:title/

Now I know I can change this later without breaking links! I have updated any links in between my different posts to use the post_url tag. When I read the following pro tip from this page I thought it was worth copying out again:

Use the post_url tag to link to other posts without having to worry about the URLs breaking when the site permalink style changes.

3. The About page
   I knew that I could create pages, I just had not got around to doing this. I now have an About page.

Future plans

In future I intend to create a better home page, try out a different theme, find a way to add emojis to posts, create a few more static pages, and see if I can create some kind of word cloud similar to the right hand side of Thomas Stringer’s blog. But for now I’ll end this post and commit my changes.