I’ve been trying to find a cleaner way to represent the tags on my website. I came across a post by Joe Kampschmidt. That inspired me to take a look at my tags page and make some changes.

First, the default site.tags value is a random list of tags completely unsorted. So, I changed the listing by defining a variable like so:

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{% assign tags = site.tags | sort %}

Next, I wanted to add a tag cloud, without weights or counts to the top of the tags page. I did this by creating the variable and reusing the collection returned. Finally, I updated the style and decided to list the tags link on my site.

I’m curious to know what you think:

Tag Cloud and Tags page on JasonGaylord.com

Here is the final tags.md page:

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---
title: Tags
permalink: /tags/
include_nav: true
---

{% assign tags = site.tags | sort %}

<div class="meta">
<ul class="tags">
{% for tag in tags %}
  {% assign t = tag | first %}
  <li><a href="#"></a></li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</div>

---

{% for tag in tags %}
  {% assign t = tag | first %}
  {%assign posts = tag | last %}
<div class="tag_page">
<h2><a name=""></a><a class="internal" href="/tag/#"></a></h2>
{% for post in posts %}
  {% if post.tags contains t %}
  <div class="post-entry">
    <a href=""></a>
    <span class="date"></span>
  </div>
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</div>

---

{% endfor %}