Yesterday, the category list of this blog was still like the one in Vigo’s Development Tips.1 However, I think that Watson’s Category List Plugin is more user-friendly because users can view the categories by scrolling, instead of clicking and waiting for another page to load.
I tried copying everything, and put them in the right places, but
initially I failed. I quickly realized that I wrongly named the
plugin file as category_list.rb, and rake preview still didn’t
produce the desired list. Then I moved the HTML file that calls the
plugin, namely the category_list.html, from
/source/_includes/asides to /source/_includes/custom/asides, and
changed _config.yml a little bit.2
Finally, I copied the contents from my working example (i.e.
/source/_includes/custom/asides/about.html) first. As expected, I
could see that the “About Me (Brief)” section was duplicated. I
changed the code bit by bit, and I managed to include a list of
categories.