Listing posts on other pages (not index.Rmd)

[annafergusson]

I get the following error message when I use the metadata entry (see https://rstudio.github.io/radix/blog.html#listing-pages) to list blog posts on pages that are not index.Rmd.

Error: The collection 'posts' does not have an article listing. (try running render_site() to generate the listing)

Weirdly, as long as I use index.Rmd as a listing page, I can use other pages to list posts, but not another page by itself.

[jjallaire]

I'm not seeing that error in a simple site that I have locally. Could you provide the full source code of a site which exhibits this error? (or a link to a git repo that does)

[annafergusson]

Here's a link to a repo I just created using the default settings for a radix blog: https://github.com/annafergusson/radix-check/. I can't knit about.Rmd to make it the listings page without getting the error above.

Edit: If I copy the posts.json file from the _site/posts folder into the _posts folder, then I can knit the about.Rmd page to make it the listing page.

[jjallaire]

The issue is that you are missing this line in the YAML for index.Rmd:

site: radix::radix_website

If you used the RStudio template or radix::create_blog() function to create the site then this should have been added automatically, not sure why it's absent.

[annafergusson]

Why is it absent? :-) Because this human didn't read https://rstudio.github.io/radix/blog.html#listing-pages properly! Thanks @jjallaire

[jjallaire]

You bet, glad it's all working now :-)