When I set PAGE_INDEX and build, an error says: "Two different tasks can't have a common target.'output\index.html' is a target for render_taxonomies:output\index.html and render_pages:output\index.html."
Separately, putting the shortcode in the right place helped. Thanks. On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 2:34:45 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > Nikola can do that quite easily. What you want to do can be achieved > by the built-in PAGE_INDEX feature. Try setting it to True in conf.py > and see how it looks. As mentioned before, you can change list.tmpl if > you want it to look differently. > > Your shortcode didn’t work, because you placed it in a template. > Shortcodes are used in content (posts/pages). > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 at 07:02, Mitch Berkson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I guess I'm not clear whether it is possible to do what I want within > Nikola. Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way. > > > > I am only interested in pages and not posts or other things. I want to > have directories which contain pages (.md files with metadata). For each > directory there will be a page which displays links to all the pages in > that directory. When I add a page, the directory page is updated when I > build the web site. Am I trying to do something which is not well-suited to > the Nikola way of doing things? > > > > On Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 12:45:33 AM UTC-4 Mitch Berkson wrote: > >> > >> When I include the shortcode {{% post-list stop=5 %}}{{% /post-list %}} > in my template, there is a jinja2 error which says that % was unexpected. > Is that the right way to use the shortcode? > >> > >> On Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 2:03:18 PM UTC-4 [email protected] > wrote: > >>> > >>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 at 19:33, Mitch Berkson <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > Thanks. That sounds better. Unfortunately, I'm lost looking for more > information about incorporating page folder indexes into a template or how > I would use listings. > >>> > >>> Nikola has a different approach, it has standardized types of things > >>> and auto-generates it based on other input, with templates whose names > >>> are defined by Nikola. Tags and categories generate an index of tags > >>> and categories and separate index pages per tag/category (with the > >>> output directory structure configurable). Archives are generated for > >>> every year/month/day (with the lowest level of granularity > >>> configurable). > >>> > >>> If you enable the PAGE_INDEX setting, index.html files will be > >>> automatically generated for all pages directories and subdirectories. > >>> It will use the list.tmpl template with the pagekind template variable > >>> containing "page_index" (it's a list). > >>> > >>> Listings are for displaying source code. If you put files in the > >>> listings/ directory, they will be turned into formatted HTML, with > >>> indexes added. > >>> > >>> If you want more granular control, and if your use-case does not fit > >>> the Nikola standard use-cases, you can use the post-list directive in > >>> a page: https://getnikola.com/handbook.html#post-list - It has > >>> filtering options and it lets you customize the template, so it is > >>> probably as flexible as you need (although I recommend exploring the > >>> standard index pages first). > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> > >>> PGP: 5EAAEA16 > > > > -- > > 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 [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nikola-discuss/72b89949-54a8-4c98-a2ad-05960db475c4n%40googlegroups.com > . > > > > -- > Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> > PGP: 5EAAEA16 > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nikola-discuss/e9c210c7-e4a7-43f5-bc63-7ae08b01c299n%40googlegroups.com.
