Jekyll — How To Display A Count Of Posts Per Tag Or Category

My Changelog website is where I keep track of all my creative work online. It contains links to every article, newsletter edition, digital product, and project I create.

I built it in Jekyll, my static site generator of choice.

One of the first hurdles I had to navigate when building the site was how to display a stats page. This would summarize all my content under a few different parameters. I wanted to display counts of posts per categories as well as tags.

Here’s how I accomplished setting up a display of post counts per category and tag.

Site Structure

Let’s start with a summary of how things are set up on the Changelog site.

I have the following tags:

• Coding
• Creation
• Design
• Milestone
• Productivity

These serve as the main buckets or topics I talk about most often. My niche if you will.

Milestone is slightly different. It denotes various markers I want to celebrate like hitting 500 Twitter followers or growing my Medium following.

Then I have categories:

• Article