general improvements for handling 'slashes' category

content/about.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ lastmod: "2024-05-29"
 description: "A brief introduction to me, this blog, and what you're likely to see here."
 timeless: true
 toc: false
-categories: "/slashes"
+categories: slashes
 ---
 **Hi, I'm John.**
 

content/categories/slashes/_index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+title: slashes
+url: /slashes
+aliases:
+  - categories/slashes
+description: >
+  My collection of slashpages.
+---

content/changelog.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: "Maybe I should keep a log of all my site-related tinkering?"
 featured: false
 toc: false
 timeless: true
-categories: /slashes
+categories: slashes
 ---
 *High-level list of config/layout changes to the site.*
 

content/colophon.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: "There's a lot that goes into this site. Let me tell you how it wor
 featured: false
 toc: true
 timeless: true
-categories: /slashes
+categories: slashes
 ---
 *I don't consider myself to be a web developer, but I've learned a **ton** through the process of building/tweaking/maintaining this site. The [colophon](https://indieweb.org/colophon) provides a quick overview of what powers `runtimeterror.dev`.*
 

content/homelab.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ description: "The systems I use for fun and enrichment."
 featured: false
 toc: true
 timeless: true
-categories: /slashes
+categories: slashes
 ---
 *I enjoy tinkering with small technology projects, and I learn a ton from these experiments. I also self-host a number of apps/services from my home as well as various cloud environments. This page describes some of my technical playground.*
 

content/save.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: "Referral links for products and services I use and heartily recomm
 featured: false
 toc: true
 timeless: true
-categories: /slashes
+categories: slashes
 ---
 *This `/saves` page lists my referral/affiliate links for high-quality products and services that I use on a daily basis. These are things I frequently recommend to others anyway, but signing up with these links might save one or both of us some money.*
 

content/uses.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ date: "2024-05-29"
 description: "The hardware, software, services, and gear which I use (almost) daily."
 toc: true
 timeless: true
-categories: /slashes
+categories: slashes
 ---
 *Here's some of the stuff I use and how I use it.*
 

layouts/partials/archive.html

@@ -6,8 +6,13 @@
 {{ if .IsHome }}
   <h1>{{ site.Params.indexTitle | markdownify }}</h1>
 {{ else }}
-  <h1>{{ .Title | markdownify }}{{ if eq .Kind "term" }}&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="{{ .Permalink }}feed.xml" aria-label="Category RSS"><i class="fa-solid fa-square-rss"></i></a>&nbsp;</h1>
+  {{ if eq .Title "slashes" }}
-  {{ if eq .Title "/slashes" }}<i>My collection of <a target="_blank" title="what's a slashpage?" href="https://slashpages.net">slashpages</a>.</i><hr>{{ else }}{{ with .Description }}<i>{{ . }}</i><hr>{{ else }}<br>{{ end }}{{ end }}
+    <h1>/slashes&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="{{ .Permalink }}feed.xml" aria-label="Category RSS"><i class="fa-solid fa-square-rss"></i></a>&nbsp;</h1>
+    <i>My collection of <a target="_blank" title="what's a slashpage?" href="https://slashpages.net">slashpages</a>.</i><hr>
+  {{ else }}
+    <h1>{{ .Title | markdownify }}{{ if eq .Kind "term" }}&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="{{ .Permalink }}feed.xml" aria-label="Category RSS"><i class="fa-solid fa-square-rss"></i></a>&nbsp;</h1>
+    {{ with .Description }}<i>{{ . }}</i><hr>{{ else }}<br>{{ end }}
+  {{ end }}
 {{ end }}{{ end }}
   {{ .Content }}
 </header>
@@ -43,7 +48,7 @@
     {{ end }}
   {{- end }}
 {{- else }}
-  {{- if eq .Title "/slashes" }}
+  {{- if eq .Title "slashes" }}
     {{- $sortedSlashes := sort $pages "Title" }}
     {{- range $sortedSlashes }}
       {{- $postDate := .Date.Format "2006-01-02" }}

layouts/partials/aside.html

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 {{ if isset .Params "categories" }}
 {{$related := where .Site.RegularPages ".Params.categories" "eq" .Params.categories }}
 {{- $relatedLimit := default 8 .Site.Params.numberOfRelatedPosts }}
-{{ if eq .Params.categories "/slashes" }}
+{{ if eq .Params.categories "slashes" }}
 <h3>More {{ .Params.categories }}</h3>
 {{ $sortedPosts := sort $related "Title" }}
 <ul>
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   {{ end }}
 </ul>
 {{ else }}
-<h3>More {{ .Params.categories }}</h3>
+<h3>More /slashes</h3>
 <ul>
   {{- range first $relatedLimit $related }}
   <li>

layouts/partials/footer.html

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <p class="copyright">{{ .Site.Copyright | markdownify }}</p>
-<p class="footer_links">{"<a href="/categories/slashes/" title="slashpages">/slashes</a>": [{{- range $i, $link :=  .Site.Params.slashPages }}{{ if $i }}, {{ end }}&quot;<a href="{{ $link.url }}" title="{{ $link.label }}">{{ $link.title }}</a>&quot;{{ end }}]}
+<p class="footer_links">{"<a href="/slashes/" title="slashpages">/slashes</a>": [{{- range $i, $link :=  .Site.Params.slashPages }}{{ if $i }}, {{ end }}&quot;<a href="{{ $link.url }}" title="{{ $link.label }}">{{ $link.title }}</a>&quot;{{ end }}]}
 <br>&lt;<a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/jbowdre/runtimeterror">view source</a>&gt;</p>
 
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