How do I display two different categories?

[NetOpWibby]

I've been wracking my brain trying to figure this out and am getting no closer to solutions (I'm also new to Middleman, but all my other pages are working fine).

I basically have a blog that I want to split into two categories: Thoughts and Projects. Blog post tagged with "thoughts" and "projects" would appear in their respective categories. My problem is, I don't where my template folders for those two categories should go, and how to call upon those two pages with pagination.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

[KitaitiMakoto]

Hi, @NetOperatorWibby

What you should do is to set blog.tag_template property in your config.rb. Documentation on middleman-blog details tag pages: https://middlemanapp.com/basics/blogging/#tags

FYI, my blog configuration might also help you:

• config.rb
• tag.html(template for tag pages)
  • Although I show one line with date and title for each article, you can do anything with articles like showing whole body
• rendered tag page as an instance(sorry, it's written in Japanese)

[NetOpWibby]

Hi @KitaitiMakoto, thanks for your reply. For some reason, I am unable to achieve the same results. Also, I wanted to be able to visit /thoughts and see all of my posts tagged with thoughts. The same for projects. On your rendered site, going to /tags gives me a 404.

I'll keep trying to find solutions.

EDIT:

Roughly 30 minutes later, I figured it out! In my config.rb, I create a helper, like so:

helpers do
  def pages_by_category(category)
    sitemap.resources.select do |resource|
      resource.data.category == category
    end.sort_by { |resource| resource.data.title }
  end
end

Then, in my projects and thoughts folders, I create a file (or "view") called index.html.erb. In it, I have:

---
layout: default
---

<% pages_by_category("categoryName").each do |p| %>
  <p><%= link_to p.data.title, p.url %></p>
<% end %>

Where categoryName is projects or thoughts, respectively.

I still have to figure out pagination, but I got what I wanted! When I visit /thoughts/, I see all my posts tagged with "thoughts", and the same thing happens for "projects". I'm almost done with my Jekyll port to Middleman!

EDIT 2:

Forgot to show something else in my config.rb (for those finding this in the future):

activate :blog do |blog|
  blog.permalink = "{category}/{title}.html"
end

[tdreyno]

There are tests in the repo showing pagination: https://github.com/middleman/middleman/blob/master/middleman-core/features/paginate.feature is a generic fashion (outside of blog)

[NetOpWibby]

@tdreyno Thanks man, I'll see if I can gleam some ideas from those tests. Would you happen to know how I could get snippets of my posts via my helper? I have no idea how to do that.

[tdreyno]

Snippets? If the resources are blog articles, then they will have a summary method.

So, p.summary in your above example.