Lego2012
6/6/2017 - 5:17 PM

Showing latest post in a special template

Showing latest post in a special template

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I finally realized you can create a /content/latest.md post WITH ONLY FRONT MATTER. This was a huge revelation. And in that front matter, you can designate a special layout. So my /content/latest.md is just:

+++
layout = "latest"
+++

And in my /layouts/_default/latest.html, something like:

<HTML>
<head>
{{- range first 1 .Site.Pages }}
<title>{{ .Title }}</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><singleline>{{ .Title }}</singleline></h1>

  {{ .Content }}

</body>
{{- end }}
</html>

The insight was being able to make an empty content file to serve as a placeholder on the server, and then filling it in dynamically via /layouts, independent of the content file