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| title | date | draft | description | featured | toc | reply | categories | tags | ||
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| The Slash Page Scoop | 2024-05-30 | true | I've added new slash pages to the site to share some background info on who I am, what I use, and how this site works. | false | true | true | Backstage |
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Inspired by Robb Knight's recent slash pages site, I spent some time over the past week or two drafting some slash pages of my own.
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.
The pages that I've implemented (so far) include:
- /about tells a bit about me and my background
- /changelog is just starting to record some of visual/functional changes I make here
- /colophon describes the technology and services used in producing/hosting this site
- /homelab isn't a canonical slash page but it provides a lot of details about my homelab setup
- /save shamelessly hosts referral links for things I love and think you'll love too
- /uses shares the stuff I use on a regular basis
And, of course, these are collected in one place at /slashes.
Feel free to stop here if you just want to check out the slash pages, or keep on reading for some nerd stuff about how I implemented them on my Hugo site.
Implementation
All of my typical blog posts get created within the site's Hugo directory under content/posts/, like this one at content/posts/the-slash-page-scoop/index.md. They get indexed, automatically added to the list of posts on the home page, and show up in the RSS feed. I don't want my slash pages to get that treatment so I made them directly inside the content directory:
content
├── categories
├── posts
├── search
├── 404.md
├── _index.md
├── about.md [tl! ~~]
├── changelog.md [tl! ~~]
├── colophon.md [tl! ~~]
├── homelab.md [tl! ~~]
├── save.md [tl! ~~]
├── simplex.md
└── 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 feature for that. I simpled tagged each page with a new slashes category by adding it to the post's front matter:
---
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! ~~]
---