A metalsmith plugin to split a metadata field into a list at delimiter.

$ npm install metalsmith-metadata-as-list

In your pages:

---
title: This is page with tags
tags: tagged, page, metalsmith, plugin
---

Hello World

You can use different handle for the tags, by configuring the handle option. tags is the default.

Install the node modules and then add the metalsmith-tags key to your metalsmith.json plugins. The simplest use case just requires tag handle you want to use:

{
  "plugins": {
    "metalsmith-metadata-as-list": {
      "handle": "tags",
    }
  }
}

Pass the plugin to Metalsmith#use:

var split = require('metalsmith-metadata-as-list');

metalsmith
    .use(split({
        handle: 'tags',                  // yaml key for tag list in you pages
        path:'topics/:tag.html',                   // path for result pages
        template:'/partials/tag.hbt',    // template to use for tag listing
        sortBy: 'date',                  // provide posts sorted by 'date' (optional)
        reverse: true                    // sort direction (optional)
    }));

Feel free to contribute to this plug-in. Fork, commit, send pull request. Issues, suggestions and bugs are more than welcome.

In case you add functionality, please write corresponding test. Test using npm test.

Thanks!

MIT