Has happened to most of us :-)
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 7:23 AM Tsvetomir Dimitrov
wrote:
> 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
>> <%block name="extra_head">
>> ${parent.extra_head()}
>>
>>
>>
>> <%block name="content">
>> Nothing in here... Literally nothing
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
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