README.md

Blog

Released under the MIT license. Copyright (c) 2013 mcbSolutions.at

Version 0.0 alpha; Please report errors.

Better organize a blog

• Determines the index file within the content/blog folder: {{ mcb_is_blog_start }}
• Determines if a page is a blog page (a file within the content/blog folder): {{ mcb_is_blog_page }}
• Best use with Pico Navigation when excluding blog folder

Installation

1. Copy/save the plugin into plugins folder

Content

1. Each page of the blog has to be located in content/blog

2. The blog file itself contains the timestamp within the meta data of the MarkDown file

    /*
    Date: 2013-10-28
    */
   

index.html

Example to exlude Blog from the menu

<nav id="nav">
    <ul>
        {% for page in pages if not page.date and page.title != 'Blog' %}
            {% if page.title == meta.title %}
               <li class="curr"><a href="{{ page.url }}">{{ page.title }}</a></li>
            {% else %}
               <li><a href="{{ page.url }}">{{ page.title }}</a></li>
            {% endif %}
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
</nav>

Example for listing the 5 latest posts at the blog's start page

{% if mcb_is_blog_start %}
	{% set num = 0 %}
	{% for page in pages if num < 5 %}
  		{% if page.mcb_is_blog_page %}
  			{% set num = num + 1 %}
              <h5><a href="{{ page.url }}" title="{{ page.title }}">{{ page.title }}</a></h5>
              <small class="date">{{ page.date_formatted }}</small>
              <p style="font-size: smaller">{{ page.excerpt }}</p>
  		{% endif %}
	{% endfor %}
{% endif %}

Example for Difference between news and blog entry

{% if current_page.date and current_page.mcb_is_blog_page %}
	// blog entry
{% elseif current_page.date %}
	// newsentry
{% else %}
	// normal page
{% endif %}

Example for filtering pages list

Note: Works for news and blog

{% for page in pages if page.date and page.mcb_is_blog_page == mcb_is_blog_page %}
      <li><a href="{{ page.url }}">{{ page.title }}</a> <sub>{{ page.date_formatted }}</sub>
{% endfor %}