Creating categories on Jekyll driven site

Question

I\'m having a hard time understanding how to generate archive pages for each category I use on my blog. I\'d like the user to be able to click on a category and then be taken to

Answer 1

For github pages, you can make an archive page with

{% for pt in site.categories %}[{{pt[0]}}](#cat-{{pt[0]}}), {% endfor %}

{% for cat in site.categories %}
{% assign nt = cat[0] %}

#### {{ nt }} {#cat-{{nt}}}
 
  {% for post in site.posts %}
     {% for pt in post.categories %}
    {% if nt == pt %}
      

        {{post.published}} {{ post.title }}
      
    {% endif %}  
   {% endfor %} 
  {% endfor %}
  
{% endfor %}

On my machine, with about 200 posts it takes 3s to generate the whole site. This is because the inner if is executed categories x number_of_posts times. On the other hand, you will have an archive page without using any plugin.