<%= article.date.strftime('%b %e %Y') %>
<%= link_to article.title, article %>
<%= article.body %>
<%= link_to 'Read more…', article %>
<% end %>
```
This should take all of our posts and display their title, date, content and a
link to the article.
Looks like there’s nothing showing up in our browser yet! That’s because we have
no posts. Let’s create our first blog post.
### Adding Posts
You can configure Middleman to use any format for blog posts, but we like to use
Markdown. Add a new file and call it `[current
year]-[current-month]-[current-date]-your-title-here.html.markdown`. This is
the default filename structure that Middleman uses. For example:
`2017-05-03-welcome-to-my-blog.html.markdown`
Middleman posts also use [frontmatter](https://middlemanapp.com/basics/frontmatter/)
to generate meta data about a post. Open up the file you just made in your text
editor of choice and add the following bit of frontmatter:
```yaml
---
title: Aliens are cool
date: 2017-05-03
tags: pizza, opinion
---
```
Right here we’ve added a title, date and tags to our post. Pro-tip: make sure
the date in your frontmatter matches the date you set in your article title.
Add whatever content you’d like your first post to be. I’m going to add some
[Tina Ipsum](http://tinaipsum.rocks/) and call it good for now.
To see our blog post show up, we need to restart our server. After that, we
should see our post appear on the home page.
### Tags
It’s helpful to let your readers easily search through your posts by tag. You
can do this by adding a page that will display all posts tagged with a specific
name. Let’s add one now.
To see this in action, let’s create another new post and call it something like
`2017-05-04-my-second-blog-post.html.markdown`
Add your frontmatter:
```yaml
---
title: Space is cool
date: 2017-05-04
tags: space, nasa
---
```
Add some text to your post and restart your server and you should see the second
post appear.
Create a new file in `source` called `tag.html.erb`.
In that file, add:
```erb