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Theme Dev: Frontpage vs. blog page

May 6, 2021 at 11:29 am #5760

[anonymous]

Hi guys,

I’m currently working on a theme Publii.
Now I ran into an issue that I cannot easily solve.
Maybe one of you has an idea.

problem: frontpage vs. blog page
The theme has a frontpage and a blog page.
The frontpage should show some featured posts + fancy stuff and
the blog page should have the whole blog available – and is *not* on the front page

solution1: custom tag page
This isn’t easily possible – but with custom tag pages i thought it should work.
i created a custom tag and a related template page. in the menu i could now create an item “blog” that points to a custom tag-template.hbs.

Downside: i would need to tag every single post with the default tag i.e. “blog” :/

solution2: using @website.contentStructure in custom tag page
Next idea i had was to use @website.contentStructure in the custom tag page to get all the posts available. This works.
Downside: the @pagination does not work because it is limited to the specific tag :/

now i’m stuck.

is there any option to get this working without developing own helpers in helpers.js?

Any ideas are welcome.

May 7, 2021 at 4:14 am #5766

Bob

There is no easy way for that, Publii is a blog-oriented CMS and that’s why it works the way it does.
I think you can consider using two websites, one for the front page the second one for the /blog/ location.

May 7, 2021 at 4:30 pm #5770

[anonymous]

Thanks very much for the fast reply! I anticipated this answer all ready 🙂

i now decided to revert to the tag-Approach. Marking every post with a theme defined blog-tag. in the custom-tag page i can do all the stuff. it’s a workaround, but it’s workable. i will then manually filter out the custom tag, if required (i.e. tags.page)

going for a 2nd websites was also a thought, but i forecast even more pain in the end.

Again Thanks and great software you guys develop here. not yet perfect, but really on it’s way.