Tags!

Last night, I added the ability to tag posts to my blog engine. The mechanics of it are pretty simple; you can filter /posts by a tag by giving it a tag parameter. Check out the “Tags” links in the sidebar.

For example, I write a fair number of posts about my blog. To just look at these posts, you’d click “Blog” on the left, which would send you to /posts?tag=blog. Try it; there’s always a back button.

You may also notice little feed icons next to the tag links: . These link to a feed that only includes posts with the given tag.

The URLs for these feeds work the same way as those for the main page. Thus, if you only care about what I have to say about Emacs, you just can subscribe to /posts.atom?tag=emacs.

There’s also a snazzy little bonus feature that doesn’t show up in any of the UI. You can use more than one tag. All you have to do is separate them with commas in the URL. Thus, if you want to hear me talk about Emacs and this blog, you could subscribe to /posts.atom?tags=emacs,blog.