prose.io provides a very easy to use, minimal, yet intuitive interface, allowing even people without git know-how, to easily wade through their site files and make edits, or create new posts. The separate metadata entry mechanism is nice, and the preview functionality gives one an opportunity to inspect stuff, before committing their changes/posts.

Here is how to create a new post, using just the github interface.

• Login into your github account, select your github.io repository.
• Go to the _posts directory, and click on ‘Create File’
• Fill in the filename in the format ‘YYYY-MM-DD-postname.md’
• Fill in the frontmatter aka metadata, starting and ending with three dashes, like this.

In order to use tags, ensure that you specify ‘tags’ in the front-matter of the post.

---
layout: post
title:  "How to activate tags"
date:   2017-08-08
comments: yes
categories: general
tags: [jekyll,tags,pagination]
---

Now, in order to activate the tag(s), you’ll have to create tag page(s). For example, to activate a tag called ‘jekyll’, in the tag directory, simply copy template.md to jekyll.md, and within jekyll.md, change the value of the title variable, from ‘template’ to ‘jekyll’.