{% include 'includes/sidebar' %} <--- this line here in homepage.peb
this seems to work :)
I'm just trying to comprehend this concept :P
Generally-speaking, an
Author is specific to the OrchidPosts plugin, and the pages generated by that plugin have an author attached to them, which can be accessed with .author. So anytime you can get a reference to one of those pages, you can call .author to get the author. Within the post.peb layout, the page variable refers to the current blog post, so you can use page.author. If you get a single page with find() or a list of pages with findAll(), if those pages are blog post or author pages, you can use .author on them
The other pages in your site (static pages, homepage, etc), do not have the author attached to them. So if you want to display the author information, you'd want to lookup one of the pages that do have an author, and access it that way
But yeah, I'd definitely realizing now that there should be a better way to access authors instead of only through pages. but hopefully that helps clear it up a bit for now
You're very welcome! And I'm excited to help you figure this all out, it's definitely revealing areas in the theme-creation area that could be improved. I've been focused on the architecture and documentation side of things for a while, but am starting to come back to improving the theming and templating experience, so this is really good timing, and giving me some good stuff to think about!
This is the first I've really seen Orchid put up directly against Jekyll, trying to convert a theme like this. I'm happy to see you're sticking with it, and I'm happy to struggle through it with you!
I'm also happy to dive into this static web stuff. I'm an android developer and a kotlin fanboy so I thought that orchid could smoothen my transition from kotlin-android into kotlin-web and that was the primary reason i chose it since I can always dig into a source code I "kind of understand".
Ultimately I'd like to help you improve the documentation once I finish with this blog and have it all figured out (hopefully). I can already tell that OrchidPosts doc could be improved with everything you wrote to me here and even better.
Ultimately I'd like to help you improve the documentation once I finish with this blog and have it all figured out (hopefully). I can already tell that OrchidPosts doc could be improved with everything you wrote to me here and even better.
hopefuly I will stick to this plan when I find some free time from my job
Just FYI I ended up using the custom variable names in
config.yml under the allpages: field because when I use the author variables from orchidPosts for some strange reason some new posts pop up an the bottom of my page displaying the author variable values on them. And That's something I don't want for now so I commented out everything about posts field.
When you query for pages with
findAll(), if you only pass collectionType then it will return pages from multiple collections, any ones that have the specified type. In this case, the OrchidPosts plugin creates two collections, both of type posts: blog with the blog posts, and authors with all the configured authors. So to only get the blog posts, you can change the query from findAll(collectionType='posts') to findAll(collectionType='posts', collectionId='blog')
There's definitely a lot of magic, and it's one of the oldest plugins and isn't quite built to be as flexible or as self-documenting as it should be. Probably the bigger issue is just that the documentation for it, on my part, is not very good. Especially for OrchidPosts, most of the effort in documentation and features lately have been on using Orchid for documentation sites, and I haven't gone back and revisited the Posts documentation in a while to trim it down, and make the important parts more clear.
I am using OrchidStarter project when I run i am getting folowing error
[INFO] OrchidWebserver: Serving: [GET] /
[ERROR] Errors:
[ERROR] PebbleCompiler:
[ERROR] - Error rendering Pebble template (see template source below)
[ERROR] Errors:
[ERROR] PebbleCompiler:
[ERROR] - <article class="post single">
<header>
<div class="title">
<h2><a href="{{ page.link }}">{{ page.title }}</a></h2>
</div>
</header>
{{ page.content | raw }}
</article>
and the homepage.md is not rendering
homepage.md
`
title: "Test"
components:
- type: pageContent
- type: recentPosts
limit: 4
noWrapper: true
template:- 'includes/postPreview_large'
Hello, Orchid
You are beautiful, and so is your website.
Let's build something beautiful and unique, together.
`
Ok, so there were a couple issues with the config, and I made a PR to your repo with these changes:
- Seems having
services.generators.externalIndiceswas what was causing the homepage to disappear. I have no clue why,
must be a bug somewhere with that. But it's not necessary, so I removed it - Categories are applied to posts by the subdirectory they are in, along with the categories being declared in
config.yml. Havingcategoriesin the front matter doesn't work, so I moved the blog post files to their
respective subdirs and they showed up on the homepage lists. - The config for the theme and taxonomies seemed to have gotten out-of-order in
config.yml. Having the additional
config files in theconfig/directory may have also been causing issues, so I condensed them all into the one
config.ymlto keep it all straight. You may want to break it up again later once you have it configured as you
want it. - Also, for making a new theme from a Hugo one, you'll have to rewrite the templates using Orchid's template language,
Pebble, and adapt them to Orchid's way of doing things. See the conversation above with Thanos Psaridis as we worked
to do a similar thing for a Jekyll theme. The whole process is kinda messy now and there isn't any documentation, so
I'm happy to work with you here on Gitter to get this process ironed out. I'm starting to work on a theme
development guide, but it's not done yet.
I am very bad in designing web pages so I just relay on predesigned sites I am a middleware developer :) I will create a repo in my and see how the theme transformation going I can post here.
@cjbrooks12 i am trying to creating my own OrchidTheme based on the existing one here https://github.com/rajmahendra/OrchidMyTheme when I try to compile I am getting Unresolved reference for
com.eden.orchid.api.theme.assets.AssetManagerDelegate and com.eden.orchid.api.theme.models.SiteSocial i am using orchid 0.20.0
The current dev branch has some changes regarding the Theme class, which will be released in 0.21.0 (hopefully in the next week or so). For 0.20.0, you should be looking at the master branch https://github.com/orchidhq/Orchid/blob/master/themes/OrchidEditorial/src/main/kotlin/com/eden/orchid/editorial/EditorialTheme.kt
@cjbrooks12 thank you. it works! I have changed my
permalink: 'blog/:year/:monthName/:slug' I am still using category. I do see the blog folder created and all categories inside that, but I do not see an index file in the blog, I want an index file with pagination of all the posts in this folder.
The Posts plugin creates the blog posts themselves, the Taxonomies plugin creates the archives https://orchid.run/plugins/orchidtaxonomies
Specifically, Collection Archives will create paginated lists for the posts in their current structure, but you can use Taxonomy archives to add additional paginated lists for things like tags
I need ur help again. :) for index file for blog folder I tried to set using Taxonomy but nothing working for me in your free time could you please send up for me? https://github.com/rajmahendra/OrchidTestBlog
I like to have title, date , author and feature image in that
with pagination.
@rajmahendra I opened another PR. Just a small tweak to the configuration for generating paginated post archives, and updating the post list template to use the same one as used on the sample theme homepage