21 December 2024, 02:03

I’ve finally finished working on the categories feature, and if you’re reading this it means it’s already deployed. Not that it was difficult in terms of coding, but it was a bit tricky in terms of design, plus it was unclear how to integrate it properly.

Basically I had some sort of categorization using tags and “post types” such as “Featured” and “Hot”, and while it sounds okay on the surface, it really wasn’t that good; there were no way to filter posts by their type, and the styling was a bit over the top and rather distracting.

So, to address these issues, I have added categories page. Under the hood it uses the same logic as tags, but my plan is to use only one category per post. I have also added feed links next to headings, so that you can subscribe to, I don’t know, “Archived” category and get ancient posts only, or subscribe to “Devlog” tag to get my site updates, you got the idea.

I like how I managed to reuse existing styling from post list for the categories index page, and it wasn’t really my plan; I initially wanted it to use a unique and interesting style, but I just couldn’t come up with anything so I reused existing design (which I stole from Fuwari).

What’s now left to finalize the categorization overhaul is redesign the “Tags” page, but right now I’m not sure how it should look like.

P.S. This particular nanopost is a bit lengthy huh…