How to add new category?

[Dishant-P]

I have little to no idea about this, so sorry if the issue is too naive. But I wanted to know how can I add same page like Blog, and rename it and add other content there. So same theme like the blogs page but different content. Thanks.

[lillemets]

There's actually a better implementation of this, one that is used by some Jekyll templates. Each category or tag could be presented as a separate menu item. So all the posts that have a tag something are shown if you open something from the menu. I'd love to see this implemented here, too.

[yousinix]

First of all, sorry for the late response.

To add a new category like posts or projects, you need to do the following — I would assume that the new category is called articles:

1. Add the new category to _config.yaml:

   collections:
     # ....
     articles:
       output: true
       permalink: /articles/:name
   
   # ....
   
   defaults:
     # ....
     - scope:
         path: ""
         type: "articles"
       values:
         layout: "page"

2. Create a folder called _articles and add your markdown files there. _You must follow the same front matter as posts.

3. Create a page called articles.html in pages directory and add the following content to it:

   ---
   layout: default
   title: Articles
   weight: 5
   permalink: /articles/
   ---
   
   <div class="card-group mt-2">
   
       {% for post in site.articles %}
           <!-- Note that this must be called "post" because the post-card wasn't
                made to be reused, we might improve this in the future to allow this. -->
           {% include blog/post-card.html %}
       {% endfor %}
   
   </div>

[jasoncwong]

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So this only works for creating a new category that resembles Blog but not Projects?

I followed the steps to try to create a category that resembled projects but could not get it to work.

In particular, I called include project/project-card.html and obtained blank blobs, and if I called include project/index.html I did not get my projects in the new category... and got repeated sets of projects in the projects folder.

`

{% for project in site.team %}
    <!-- Note that this must be called "post" because the post-card wasn't
         made to be reused, we might improve this in the future to allow this. -->
    {% include projects/index.html %}
{% endfor %}

{% for project in site.team %}
    <!-- Note that this must be called "post" because the post-card wasn't
         made to be reused, we might improve this in the future to allow this. -->
    {% include projects/project-card.html %}
{% endfor %}

`

[yousinix]

As I stated above, the project and blog cards weren't made to be reused — this was due to poor design and I am planning to change this in the future when I have time. Therefore, you have to provide the variables needed by project-card.hrml as below, but using your new category (site.team in your case) instead of site.projects in the for loop:

https://github.com/YoussefRaafatNasry/portfolYOU/blob/479d51df4b5c11f691211be47c5f06426c6c6d32/_includes/projects/index.html#L37-L54