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Building a persistent list of posts

October 19, 2020 at 6:28 pm #4208
[anonymous]
Hey I’m modifying the Square theme to always display a list of all posts on the left hand side. This is going well so far, but I am confused about how to do something.

I iterate over all posts via @website.contentStructure.posts and build the list and inside there am attempting to check if the currently iterated over post is the one that is being build from #post. This causes a syntax error when building in Publii. This is probably rooted in my misunderstanding of how the variables are scoped in Publii’s way of using Handlebars.
<h1>All Posts</h1>
- {{#each @website.contentStructure.posts}} {{#unless isHidden}}
  {{#checkIf #post.id ‘==’ id}} //DISPLAY CURRENT POST IN LIST SOMEHOW DIFFERENTLY {{else}} {{title}} {{date createdAt @config.custom.formatDate}} {{/checkIf}}
{{/unless}} {{/each}}
What would be the right way to do this?

Thanks
October 19, 2020 at 6:58 pm #4210
Bob
Try this way:
```
<div>
   <h1>All Posts</h1>
   <ul> 
     {{#each @website.contentStructure.posts}} 
        <li> 
           <a href="{{url}}" rel="nofollow"> <strong>{{title}}</strong> </a>
        </li> 
     {{/each}} 
   </ul>
</div>
```
October 19, 2020 at 7:36 pm #4214

[anonymous]

Hey Bob,

That’s what I’m doing. My question maybe was unclear. I’m trying to style the currently displayed post differently than the rest. The #checkif in my code is what’s trying to do that, and the // comment is where that alternate styling would be. Other than that, my code is functionally the same as what you posted.

October 19, 2020 at 7:42 pm #4215

[anonymous]

Ultimately this is about the “evaluation context” in Handlebars. I’m trying to access the context of #post inside of an #each that changes the context to the iterated upon post. I’m not clear on if this is possible, and if it isn’t, what I would do instead.

October 19, 2020 at 7:52 pm #4216
[anonymous]
Ok I have a solution. It doesn’t work unless the site is deployed and URLs are real. Here it is:
```
                <br>
        <h1>All Posts</h1>
        
        {{#each @website.contentStructure.posts}}
        {{#unless isHidden}}
          
                    {{#checkIf @website.pageUrl '==' url}}
                        
                    {{else}}
                        
                       {{title}} {{date createdAt @config.custom.formatDate}}
                
                    {{/checkIf}}    
                    
        {{/unless}}
        {{/each}}
        
        
```
Still, I’d like to understand if I can get at the current Post from inside an #each over the website’s posts. However, I’m all set with this problem.