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content/posts/the-slash-page-scoop/index.md

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Inspired by [Robb Knight](https://rknight.me/)'s recent [slash pages](https://sl
 
 > Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like `/now`, `/about`, or `/uses`. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.
 
+On a blog that is otherwise organized in a fairly chronological manner, slash pages provide a way share information out-of-band. I think they're great for more static content (like an about page that says who I am) as well as for content that may be regularly updated (like a changelog).
+
 The pages that I've implemented (so far) include:
 - [/about](/about) tells a bit about me and my background
 - [/changelog](/changelog) is just *starting* to record some of visual/functional changes I make here
@@ -47,18 +49,145 @@ content
 └── uses.md  [tl! ~~]
 ```
 
-Easy enough, but I didn't then want to have to worry about manually updating a list of slash pages so I used [Hugo's Taxonomies](https://gohugo.io/content-management/taxonomies/) feature for that. I simpled tagged each page with a new `slashes` category by adding it to the post's front matter:
+Easy enough, but I didn't then want to have to worry about manually updating a list of slash pages so I used [Hugo's Taxonomies](https://gohugo.io/content-management/taxonomies/) feature for that. I simply tagged each page with a new `slashes` category by adding it to the post's front matter:
 
 ```yaml
+# torchlight! {"lineNumbers":true}
 ---
 title: "/changelog"
 date: "2024-05-26"
 lastmod: "2024-05-30"
 description: "Maybe I should keep a log of all my site-related tinkering?"
-featured: false
-toc: false
-timeless: true
 categories: slashes # [tl! ~~]
 ---
 ```
 
+{{% notice note "Category Names" %}}
+I really wanted to name the category `/slashes`, but that seems to trip up Hugo a bit when it comes to creating an archive of category posts. So I settled for `slashes` and came up with some workarounds to make it present the way I wanted.
+{{% /notice %}}
+
+Hugo will automatically generate an archive page for a given taxonomy term (so a post tagged with the category `slashes` would be listed at `$BASE_URL/category/slashes/`), but I like to have a bit of control over how those archive pages are actually presented. So I create a new file at `content/categories/slashes/_index.md` and drop in this front matter:
+
+```yaml
+# torchlight! {"lineNumbers":true}
+---
+title: /slashes
+url: /slashes
+aliases:
+  - /categories/slashes
+description: >
+  My collection of slash pages.
+---
+```
+
+The `slashes` in the file path tells Hugo which taxonomy it belongs to and so it can match the appropriately-categorized posts.
+
+Just like with normal posts, the `title` field defines the title (duh) of the post; this way I can label the archive page as `/slashes` instead of just `slashes`.
+
+The `url` field lets me override where the page will be served, and I added `/categories/slashes` as an alias so that anyone who hits that canonical URL will be automatically redirected.
+
+Setting a `description` lets me choose what introductory text will be displayed at the top of the index page, as well as when it's shown at the next higher level archive (like `/categories/`).
+
+Of course, I'd like to include a link to [slashpages.net](https://slashpages.net) to provide a bit more info about what these pages are, and I can't add hyperlinks to the description text. What I *can* do is edit the template which is used for rendering the archive page. In my case, that's at `layouts/partials/archive.html`, and it starts out like this:
+
+```jinja-html
+# torchlight! {"lineNumbers":true}
+{{ $pages := .Pages }}
+{{ if .IsHome }}
+  {{ $pages = where site.RegularPages "Type" "in" site.Params.mainSections }}
+{{ end }}
+<header class="content__header">
+{{ 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> <!-- [tl! ~~] -->
+  {{ with .Description }}<i>{{ . }}</i><hr>{{ else }}<br>{{ end }}
+{{ end }}{{ end }}
+  {{ .Content }}
+</header>
+```
+
+Line 9 is where I had already modified the template to conditionally add an RSS link for category archive pages. I'm going to tweak the setup a bit to conditionally render designated text when the page `.Title` matches `/slashes`:
+
+```jinja-html
+# torchlight! {"lineNumbers":true}
+{{ $pages := .Pages }}
+{{ if .IsHome }}
+  {{ $pages = where site.RegularPages "Type" "in" site.Params.mainSections }}
+{{ end }}
+<header class="content__header">
+{{ if .IsHome }}
+  <h1>{{ site.Params.indexTitle | markdownify }}</h1>
+{{ else }}
+  {{ if eq .Title "/slashes" }} <!-- [tl! **:3 ++:3 ] -->
+    <h1>{{ .Title | markdownify }}</h1>
+    <i>My collection of <a target="_blank" title="what's a slashpage?" href="https://slashpages.net">slash pages</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 }} <!-- [tl! ** ++ ] -->
+{{ end }}{{ end }}
+  {{ .Content }}
+</header>
+```
+
+So instead of rendering the `description` I defined in the front matter the archive page will show:
+
+> *My collection of [slash pages](https://slashpages.net).*
+
+While I'm at it, I'd like for the posts themselves to be listed in alphabetical order rather than sorted by date. So here's how the rest of my existing `archive.html` partial template handles displaying posts:
+
+```jinja-html
+# torchlight! {"lineNumbers":true}
+{{- if eq .Kind "taxonomy" }} <!-- [tl! reindex(15) ] -->
+  {{- if eq .Title "Tags" }}
+    <div class="tagsArchive">
+    {{- range $key, $value := .Site.Taxonomies }}
+      {{- $slicedTags := ($value.ByCount) }}
+      {{- range $slicedTags }}
+        {{- if eq $key "tags"}}
+          <div><a href='/{{ $key }}/{{ (replace .Name "#" "%23") | urlize }}/' title="{{ .Name }}">{{ .Name }}</a><sup>{{ .Count }}</sup></div>
+        {{- end }}
+      {{- end }}
+    {{- end }}
+  </div>
+  {{- else }}
+    {{- range .Pages.ByDate.Reverse }}
+      {{- $postDate := .Date.Format "2006-01-02" }}
+      {{- $updateDate := .Lastmod.Format "2006-01-02" }}
+      <article class="post">
+        <header class="post__header">
+          <h1><a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title | markdownify }}</a></h1>
+          <p class="post__meta">
+            <span class="date">["{{- $postDate }}"{{- if ne $postDate $updateDate }}, "{{ $updateDate }}"{{ end }}]</span>
+          </p>
+        </header>
+        <section class="post__summary">
+          {{ .Description }}
+        </section>
+        <hr>
+      </article>
+    {{ end }}
+  {{- end }}
+{{- else }}
+  {{- range (.Paginate $pages).Pages }}
+    {{- $postDate := .Date.Format "2006-01-02" }}
+    {{- $updateDate := .Lastmod.Format "2006-01-02" }}
+    <article class="post">
+      <header class="post__header">
+          <h1><a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title | markdownify }}</a></h1>
+          <p class="post__meta">
+              <span class="date">["{{- $postDate }}"{{- if ne $postDate $updateDate }}, "{{ $updateDate }}"{{ end }}]</span>
+          </p>
+      </header>
+      <section class="post__summary">
+          {{ .Summary }}
+      </section>
+      <hr>
+    </article>
+  {{- end }}
+  {{- template "_internal/pagination.html" . }}
+{{- end }}
+```
+
+Basically: if it's the [tags](/tags/) archive page, it will list out all the tags in a compact way. If it's some other taxonomy page,