Feature request: _posts

[axet]

Hello! Thanks for amazing jekylle theme, it is nice and simple. Jekyll supports for two main navigation methods: direct and date related. Your theme only covers one of it (direct).

Can you please add support for '_posts' keeping your theme nice and simple as before? It can be implemented similar to how 'has_children/parent' works with date url prefix in url and title.

[fogfish]

I would keep _post as a side feature for theme. It makes a possibility to mix a documentation and knowledge articles on the same site. For example index.md of my personal site looks like (see the snippet). As the result, I do have a side bar as a doc navigation with dedicated section for Blog/Articles posts.

---
layout: default
title: Highlights about technologies
permalink: /
search_exclude: true
---

# Highlights about technologies 

<ul class="posts">
   {% for post in site.posts %}
      <li><span>{{ post.date | date_to_string }}</span> &raquo; <a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li>
   {% endfor %}
</ul>

[pdmosses]

@axet, as @fogfish commented, this theme already allows the use of posts: if one adds a file to the _posts directory with the date in the file name, Jekyll processes it as usual, and outputs the rendered page to the site.

The post layout of the theme is currently empty, so post pages do not display any meta-data (title, date, author, categories, etc.). However, a website maintainer can easily update the post layout to display the desired meta-data in the body of the page, including links to next and previous posts (see #298 for a simple example).

By support for "date related" navigation for posts, do you mean automatic generation of a hierarchy with years at the top level, expanding to months, then days, and finally lists of links to individual posts – perhaps also grouped by a tree of categories? If you have a specific design in mind (perhaps based on support for post navigation in other themes) please follow up with a detailed explanation, possibly together with a pull request.

PR #379 aims to integrate collections into the theme navigation, and might provide a good basis for post navigation; see also query #356.

[creio]

Enable search _posts?

[j-rahman]

If you have a really long list of blog posts, how would you truncate the above list with a button that reads "Older Posts" or "Next Page" to get to further items in the long list?

[mattxwang]

Going to close this as inactive / duplicate for now (we have other PRs addressing including _posts in search, etc.). Feel free to re-open if you have a clearer ask!