So, I’m working on micro.blog as a full website with blog. It’s at https://johnan.micro.blog/ while I wait for the custom domain to point at it.
I want a custom Home Page and a page called Blog. The custom Home page is easy enough, but it’s really messy trying to set up an alternative page called Blog that will replicate what the built-in micro.blog index page does (ie display the blog posts).
I’ve searched and researched in the help pages and forums, but nobody seems to have come up with a tidy solution for this. The threads kind of just fizzle out.
My quick and dirty workaround is to make a new page called Blog and just redirect it to https://johnan.micro.blog (ie the index page). It works, but it’s noticeable that when I click on ‘Blog’ in the menu, the whole page refreshes, including the header and stuff (rather than having the header stay put while just the content changes, which is how the other menu buttons work). I don’t know if there’s a way to change this behaviour with the Blog button.
Is it possible that a better way to do the alternative-Blog-page exists, and I’ve just managed to miss it in Help?
I’ve been thinking about updating the “Custom home page” plug-in to also create a listing of recent blog posts at something like “/blog”. That should be possible and hopefully will be a good default that can be customized with a theme.
It’d be good if this took whatever the content of layouts/index.html is and moved it to that … though that also makes for a very complex uninstall process. But that’s the only way to get theme-consistent blog lists.
Why would it complicate the uninstall process, @jsonbecker? (I know, it’s probably obvious to someone who understands the inner workings of micro.blog, and I hope never to have to do any major uninstalling.)
Plug ins are additive right now, adding additional layouts and elements to your blog that they own, and then remove those elements when uninstalled. There’s no overlap really. A “move a file you have” on install and uninstall is a very different process.
