How to create a post template which fetches posts by tag

[3muchfun]

Hi,
in the old forum @bobmitro wrote how to change a post to a page:
https://forum.getpublii.com/topic/post-vs-page/:
Mark a post as Hidden, and then it will work as a “static” page.

My question is: how I make the 'page' to be shown on the front page within the list of posts ?

Secondly: My goal is to create a 'page' that holds links to other posts, e.g.:

• front page
  |_ page
  . |_ post 1
  . |_ post 2
  . |_ post 3
  . |_ ...

and this 'page' should behave like the front page ... I use the Mercury free theme
Thanks in advance, Michael

[candidexmedia]

Hi @3muchfun!

I admit, I'm a little confused by this post, but hopefully this answer helps...

My question is: how I make the 'page' to be shown on the front page within the list of posts ?

Don't mark the post as hidden.¹

Secondly: My goal is to create a 'page' that holds links to other posts, e.g.:

It's possible to set an existing post/page¹ as your site's home page.

Instead of a listing of posts, it'll display your selected post.

That said, if you want to keep Publii's automated "Latest posts" listings and have some kind of opening text above it that displays other links, use the WYSIWYG text editor in the "Hero section" theme setting:

You can then link to other pages from there using the link button.

Let me know if that clarifies things. If not, could you sketch out what you're hoping to achieve?

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¹ For the time being, "posts" and "pages" (in this context) are more or less the same. Hiding a post doesn't change/convert it into a page -- it just hides the posts from listings.

[3muchfun]

here you are:
https://fluegge.net/ohnein/post-mallorcahbs/

[3muchfun]

All I changed from the index.hbs is:
change
{{#each posts}}
to
{{#each @website.contentStructure.posts}}

[3muchfun]

And I created a Tag Mallorca with Id 11, so I thought '{{#getPostsByTags 8 11}}' would do the trick, but I don't know, where to put it ...

[candidexmedia]

This might be the line to modify:

{{#each @website.contentStructure.posts}}

I did some digging, and you might have to use a different helper since you're no longer on the home page index. Give this article a look: https://getpublii.com/dev/how-to-display-posts-connected-with-a-specific-tag-name/

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For example:

| ```html
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| ```

[3muchfun]

That does the trick, thank you :-)
I changed {{#each @website.contentStructure.posts}} to {{#each @website.contentStructure.tags}} and and added

{{#checkIf this.name '==' 'TAGNAME'}}
    {{#if this.postsNumber}}
    {{#each this.posts}}

as described in the link you provided.

You can see the result here, if you like: https://fluegge.net/unterwegs/ and choose the card for Mallorca

[candidexmedia]

That is wonderful!! 🎉🎉🎉 I feel like I also learned something new with this question.

I have a hunch that you could probably also use the tag ID by doing:

{{#checkIf this.id '==' 'TAGID'}}

Based on these articles:

• https://getpublii.com/dev/website-global-variable/#contentstructure
• https://getpublii.com/dev/tag-tags/

It's probably also possible to dynamically select which tag to use in the Post settings via the Theme Settings API's Tags Dropdown selector. I presume the syntax would be something like this (assuming the setting was named tagDropdownSelection):

{{#checkIf this.id '==' '{{ @config.post.tagDropdownSelection }}'}}

[3muchfun]

Thanks, @candidexmedia, using the tag name is fine for me, as as it easier to understand what the code does...
I tried to describe what I did, maybe you can have a look whether I missed something:
https://fluegge.net/ohnein/how-to-add-a-page-to-a-publii-website/

[candidexmedia]

Having a reference page is a great idea, and the info seems accurate.

If you want it to be discoverable by other people, I would just suggest making the title more descriptive, for example, "How to add a post as a page to a Publii website" could become "How to create a post template which fetches posts by tag" or "Adding a tag-specific post listing/directory inside a post" or something along those lines.

[joan-medina-roca]

I would create a post. Then create a post template and assign it to this post. Then make Publii display this post as the main page.

Now I would edit the template to show cards to the other posts.

I don't know if this is the solution you are looking for, but I think it's kind of close. You can see this implemented at my website's lamardeswing.com frontpage.

[3muchfun]

Thank you, but that is not exactly, what I would like to achieve