Migrating this site to jekyll has been an interesting experience. In order to simplify the deployment process, I stuck to vanilla jekyll (i.e. what was supported by github pages). Here are some learnings:

• The built-in pagination support is inflexible and lack-luster. Want to manage two logical blogs on indepenent topics in a single deployment? Forget about it.

• Something as simple as adding a table of contents to a page is more painful than it should be, unless you are looking for simple in-line positioning. I ended up using the jQuery TOC library.

• There is little support for post tags or categories in combination with pagination. Creating tag / section specific pages is not possible.

The primary workaround for this is to have a single page with all posts sorted by tags. Because this scales poorly, it’s best to have just the titles, or a very limited extract for each post.

Get a list of sorted tags.

{% assign sorted_tags = (site.tags | sort:0) %}

Create a list of all posts, grouped by tag

{% for tag in sorted_tags %}
	{% assign t = tag | first %}
	{% assign posts = tag | last %}

	{{t | downcase}}
	{% for post in posts %}
	  {% if post.tags contains t %}
	  	{{ post.date | date_to_string }}: {{ post.title }}
	  {% endif %}
	{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

Adapted from jokecamp.com