The result of "ask stupid question on the internet to find the answer 10 minutes later"....
The template behavior is exactly as I expected it, however I've messed up my conf.py file and newly generated pages were in pages subdir. Because I haven't cleaned the old index was still in the site root and looked like my template is totally ignored. On Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:18:14 UTC+3, Tsvetomir Dimitrov wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > I'm using Nikola for a personal blog and I want to create a custom index > page. I managed to that following the handbook instructions but now I want > to go a step further - to modify the mako template, used to render the > index page. I'm stuck at this step. > > Here is what I do (based on this tutorial: > https://getnikola.com/creating-a-custom-page.html): > > I've got an index page and I modify its metadata as mentioned in the link > above > > .. title: my homepage > .. slug: index > .. date: 2019-08-13 23:16:14 UTC+03:00 > .. tags: > .. category: > .. link: > .. description: > .. type: text > .. hidetitle: True > .. template: front.tmpl > > > > Then in front.tmpl I add this: > > ## -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > <%namespace name="helper" file="post_helper.tmpl"/> > <%namespace name="pheader" file="post_header.tmpl"/> > <%inherit file="post.tmpl"/> > > ## This redefines the extra_head block which goes at the end of <head> > <%block name="extra_head"> > ${parent.extra_head()} > <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/bootstrap-social.css"> > </%block> > > <%block name="content"> > <p> Nothing in here... Literally nothing!!!!!!!!</p> > </%block> > > > My expectations are that bootstrap-social.css will appear in the head > section of the generated text, but it didn't happen. > > To validate that my template is working I inherited the content block and > replaced it with static text. My expectation was that it will override the > contents of the RST file, but again it didn't happen. > > Overall it seems that my template is not used at all. Could you please > give me some hints what I'm doing wrong? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nikola-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nikola-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nikola-discuss/a6a9e2a0-f047-4ff8-95f5-bebe49f167bf%40googlegroups.com.
