post-list in template

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

I wold like to list the newest 5 blog-posts in a side-column on every
page. Can I use sort-codes in templates?

What is the best way to do this?

(I'm aware that this most probably will lead to a full rebuild when
adding posts.)

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[Chris Warrick]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 at 19:33, Hartmut Goebel
<h.go...@crazy-compilers.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wold like to list the newest 5 blog-posts in a side-column on every
> page. Can I use sort-codes in templates?
>
> What is the best way to do this?
>
> (I'm aware that this most probably will lead to a full rebuild when
> adding posts.)

Nikola explicitly does not support anything that would cause full
rebuilds to occur often, so the inclusion of the sidebar would happen
outside of Nikola. You could use something like the sidebar plugin
[0], and then include it in your pages via server-side includes or
front-end JavaScript.

[0]: https://plugins.getnikola.com/v7/sidebar/
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[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi Chris,

> Nikola explicitly does not support anything that would cause full
> rebuilds to occur often, so the inclusion of the sidebar would happen
> outside of Nikola. You could use something like the sidebar plugin
> [0], and then include it in your pages via server-side includes or
> front-end JavaScript.

I fully agree that a full rebuild is to be avoided and appreiciate
nikola is working hard in this.

Anyhow, relying on Javascript for fetching relevant content is not an
option for me. Given that my blog changes very rarely (about 5 time a
year), a full rebuild is acceptable for me and the smaller restriction.

Thanks for pointing to the sidebar plugin. Anyhow using also leads to a
full rebuild whenever a blog post is added - except that anther tool is
required for completing the task and "nikola deploy" can't be used
anymore. I rather prefer building this into nikola (not into the core,
of course).


A quite different approach could be to create mini-HTML-pages to be
included as iframe? WDYT? How could this be done?

[Roberto Alsina]

If you really really really want to do this:

In conf.py you can write a function that generates the list of the last 5 posts and expose it as a member of GLOBAL_CONTEXT

That will make it available in templates.

Of course from them on you have to always use "nikola build -a" but that should work.

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[Roberto Alsina]

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 12:27 PM Roberto Alsina <ral...@kde.org> wrote:

If you really really really want to do this:

In conf.py you can write a function that generates the list of the last 5 posts and expose it as a member of GLOBAL_CONTEXT

This may not be as easy as I remembered it being. I'll try to write an example later.