Enhancement: Exclude content from subfolders?

[estruyf]

Add the option to exclude sub-directories.

@iveptawebadmin Thanks for opening the discussion. Let us follow it up here as this will become an enhancement to the CMS.

Discussed in #172

^{Originally posted by iveptawebadmin November 9, 2021}
On my Hugo site, many of my pages like about.md, contact.md, etc. are in the root of my content directory.
Then I have subdirectories for subsections of the site like blog, events, etc. that have pages within them.

I would like the root content pages to be shown in a 'Pages' section, and then news posts to be in a 'News' section and so on.
Is there a way to set this up so that the 'Pages' folder does not look into any of the subdirectories within the content directory?

"frontMatter.content.pageFolders": [
    {
      "title": "Pages",
      "path": "[[workspace]]/content"
    },
    {
      "title": "News",
      "path": "[[workspace]]/content/news"
    }
  ],

Right now the 'Pages' folder has all the files from every subdirectory within content.

[estruyf]

@iveptawebadmin thanks for asking this. You will be able with version 5.5.0 of the extension to specify an extra excludeSubdir property for the pages folder.

"frontMatter.content.pageFolders": [
    {
      "title": "Pages",
      "path": "[[workspace]]/content",
      "excludeSubdir": true
    },
    {
      "title": "News",
      "path": "[[workspace]]/content/news"
    }
  ],

You'll be able to test it out with the latest beta version: https://frontmatter.codes/docs/getting-started#beta-version

[iveptawebadmin]

Are you automatically pushing out updates to Open VSX on these updates to 'Beta'?

[estruyf]

@iveptawebadmin yes. It is part of the same release flow. If a main (with the upcoming version) or beta version is released, it gets published to both.