Jared Andrews

There are only a couple templates left for this to be a complete Pelican theme. Two of them are related to tags, tag.html and tags.html.

The tag.html template displays articles related to a specific tag and the tags.html template displays a list of all tags on the site.

The Tag Template

For tag.html I just want to show the name of the tag and list related articles which is very similar to what I have done in category.html and archives.html.

$ touch theme/templates/tag.html

I basically copied category.html and made a few changes:

{% from 'macros.html' import get_article_list  %}
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block title %}{{ tag }} — {{ SITENAME }}{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
    <h2>Posts tagged with: {{ tag }}</h2>
    {{ get_article_list(articles, DEFAULT_CATEGORY) }}
    <p>
        <a href="{{ SITEURL }}/tags.html">Click here for a list of all tags.</a>
    </p>
{% endblock %}

tag.html gets a variable called tag which contains the name of the selected tag. I put this in the title block of the page and in the h2 of the page. Like category.html, tag.html provides articles which contains a list of relevant articles.

The Tags Template

For tags.html I just want to list all the tags on the site along with a number indicating how many articles have the given tag.

$ touch theme/templates/tags.html

tags.html is undocumented in the Pelican 3.7.1 Docs but the 'simple' theme shows an example.

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block title %}Tags — {{ SITENAME }}{% endblock %}

{% block content %}
    <h2>Tags</h2>
    <ul>
        {% for tag, articles in tags|sort %}
            <li><a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ tag.url }}">{{ tag }}</a> ({{ articles|count }})</li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
{% endblock %}

Wrapping Up

I have added tag.html and tags.html templates to the site. The only remaining template that I am interested in handling is page.html.

To view this site the way it looked once all the changes described in this article were made, click here.

Commit on GitHub.