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25 Aug 2026 · 9 min read

Paginating a Blog in Astro

Clean URLs, placeholder cards, and no client-side JavaScript

How I added SEO-friendly pagination to the blog listing page on this site — using Astro's static routing, a shared BlogGrid component, and placeholder cards to fill out the grid while the post count is low.

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1 May 2026, BST · 5 min read

Breadcrumb navigation with Schema.org markup

Auto-generated crumbs, BreadcrumbList structured data, and accessible aria markup

How Breadcrumb.astro works — auto-generating crumbs from the URL path, rendering Schema.org BreadcrumbList structured data inline for search engines, and marking up the current page correctly for screen readers.

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28 Apr 2026, BST · 4 min read

Adding an RSS feed to an Astro blog

Content collections, draft filtering, and what an RSS reader actually expects

How to add a proper RSS feed to an Astro content collections site — using the official @astrojs/rss package, filtering out draft posts, generating absolute URLs, and validating the output before deploying.

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21 Apr 2026, BST · 27 min read

Building a tag system in Astro

Slug normalisation, tag clouds, ring layouts, paginated archives, and tag page improvements

How this blog's tag system works: from tag slug normalisation and publication-aware counts to the weighted cloud on the blog archive, the ring layout on /tags, paginated tag pages, the sidebar browser, and later improvements including per-tag descriptions, a featured post, related topics, and a stats bar.

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