[bjazmoore]

I have a post that is built to be a landing page with lots of custom content.  I have set it as the post that the Front Page displays in my theme settings.  I would still like to have a blog page also that is linked from the menu.  I feel like this should not be hard to do, but cannot seem to figure out what the special sauce is.

[candidexmedia]

It sounds like you’re trying to set up an alternative index page. Check out this forum post for some insight: https://forum.getpublii.com/topic/mercury-theme-filter-help/

 

This blog post should also help: https://cv.domagic.site/posts/alternative-post-template-with-filter-for-publii-cms

 

In essence: you’ll want to create a post template that is identical to index.hbs, but you’ll want to swap out any index-specific Handlebars tags/helpers with post ones.

Then, create a post using that template, and map your menu item to that post.

Another, simpler alternative if you only have one author: set that menu item to the author page / post directory. You can edit the author hbs file for further customization.

[bjazmoore]

candidexmedia wrote:

In essence: you’ll want to create a post template that is identical to index.hbs, but you’ll want to swap out any index-specific Handlebars tags/helpers with post ones.

Then, create a post using that template, and map your menu item to that post.

Another, simpler alternative if you only have one author: set that menu item to the author page / post directory. You can edit the author hbs file for further customization.

That makes sense.  I was trying to puzzle that out in my mind, thinking that was the way, but I could not quite figure out how to start.

Thanks so much.

[bjazmoore]

candidexmedia wrote:

This blog post should also help: https://cv.domagic.site/posts/alternative-post-template-with-filter-for-publii-cms

The blog post was most helpful, and I have the blog list working with one exception.  It will not paginate.  I can tell that the paginate hbs file is being included but suspect the context it is being used in is causing an issue.  I am not really sure what is happening in the code though – so not sure what I should be looking at.

I am attaching my custom post-bloglist.hbs file so you can see what I have done.  I have not altered any other files.

I am using the default theme – Simple

post-bloglist

[bjazmoore]

bjazmoore wrote:

candidexmedia wrote:

This blog post should also help: https://cv.domagic.site/posts/alternative-post-template-with-filter-for-publii-cms

The blog post was most helpful, and I have the blog list working with one exception. It will not paginate. I can tell that the paginate hbs file is being included but suspect the context it is being used in is causing an issue. I am not really sure what is happening in the code though – so not sure what I should be looking at.

I am attaching my custom post-bloglist.hbs file so you can see what I have done. I have not altered any other files.

I am using the default theme – Simple

post-bloglist

So I was doing some reading and came across this snippet in the documentation:

Homepage, tag, and author pages support pagination. It is based on a few global variables and helpers. You can use pagination not only for creating pagination links, but also for a link with `rel=”prev”` or `rel=”next”` attributes.

I added some code to return the value of @pagination just to be sure.  It is false.  Is there any way to get Publii to paginate a file other than Homepage, tag and author?

Thanks

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