Generating a list of pages (not posts) in a given category

Question

I am using Jekyll as a static generator for a website (not a blog), and I want to have an automatically generated list of all pages on my index page. Specifically, I want to

Answer 1

There's a cleaner way to do this using the liquid "contains" property:

In _config.yml, add your index of categories

categories: [fruit, meat, vegetable, cheese, drink]

In your page.md inside the front matter, add one or more of the categories available in the _config.yml

---
layout: page
title: Orange juice
description: Orange juice is juice from oranges. It's made by squeezing oranges.
categories: [fruit, drink]
---

In your template to get all the pages in the fruit category you do:

{% for page in site.pages %}
  {% if page.categories contains 'fruit' %}
    

      
{{page.title}}
      
{{page.description}}
    
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}