Remove our categorization hack, and add category view pages instead.

_config.yml

@@ -21,3 +21,11 @@ timezone: America/New_York
 
 # Build settings
 markdown: kramdown
+
+
+# Category settings
+category_titles:
+  -
+    technology: "Anna the Technologist"
+    media: "Anna the Player of Games"
+    religion: "Anna the Mystic"

_includes/category_list.html

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <h1 class="page-heading">{{ include.category | capitalize }}</h1>
 
 <ul class="post-list">
-  {% for post in site.categories[include.category] limit:5 %}
+  {% for post in site.categories[include.category] limit:include.limit %}
     <li>
       <span class="post-meta">{{ post.date | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }}</span>
       <h2>

_layouts/category_index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+layout: default
+---
+<article class="post">
+
+  <header class="post-header">
+    <h1 class="post-title">{{ page.title }}</h1>
+  </header>
+
+  <div class="post-content">
+    {% include category_list.html category=page.data['category'] limit=0 %}
+  </div>
+
+</article>

_plugins/auto_categories.rb

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Very simple plugin that adds a subdirectory under _posts as a category
-
-def get_category_from_subdir(path)
-  path.sub(/^.*_posts\/(.*?)\/.*$/, "\\1")
-end
-
-Jekyll::Hooks.register :posts, :pre_render do |post, payload|
-  post.data['categories'] << get_category_from_subdir(post.path)
-end

_plugins/category_page.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+class CategoryPage < Jekyll::Page
+  def initialize(site, base, dir, category)
+    @site = site
+    @base = base
+    @dir = dir
+    @name = 'index.html'
+    
+    self.process(@name)
+    self.read_yaml(File.join(base, '_layouts'), 'category_index.html')
+    self.data['category'] = category
+
+    category_title = site.config['category_titles'][category] || category.capitalize
+    self.data['title'] = "#{category_title}"
+  end
+end
+
+class CategoryPageGenerator < Jekyll::Generator
+  safe true
+
+  def generate(site)
+    if !site.layouts.key? 'category_index'
+      return
+    end
+
+    site.categories.each_key do |category|
+      site.pages << CategoryPage.new(site, site.source, category, category)
+    end
+  end
+  
+end

_sass/_columns.scss

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/* For dynamically determined columnar formatting.
+   Currently supports equal-width, 1-4 column layouts.
+*/
+
+* {
+  box-sizing: border-box;
+}
+
+.column {
+  float: left;
+  padding-right: 5px;
+}
+
+.col-1 {
+  width: 100%;
+}
+.col-2 {
+  width: 50%;
+}
+.col-3 {
+  width: 33%;
+}
+.col-4 {
+  width: 25%;
+}

index.html

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ layout: default
   {% for category in site.categories %}
     {% if category.first == "meta" %} {% continue %} {% endif %}
     <div class="column col-{{site.categories.size | minus: 1}}">
-      {% include category_list.html category=category.first %}
+      {% include category_list.html category=category.first limit=5 %}
     </div>
   {% endfor %}