👍 / now & h-now

Liked https://notiz.blog/2020/06/08/now-h-now/ (notiz.blog)

The page-now.phptemplate for the / now page is automatically drawn via the file name and no further work is actually necessary, but if the page should be accessible under a different slug (for whatever reason), you can also use the template for the /** Template Name: "/now" Template */header for make any page available.

Another alternative would be post_classto expand, but a dedicated template simply offers more options. A nice example is Dominik Schwinds https://lostfocus.de/now/ , which he updates via the category “nownownow”.

One response on “👍 / now & h-now”

  1. My post on automating my /now page was very popular and I am proud of what I managed to do but I’ve been thinking for a while it’s very impersonal. It’s data. It’s not a page written by me in any meaningful way.

    Leon had some similar thoughts on this with an idea for each blog post being a section of a page but rendered as one. The end goal for him, and me, is that the new additions get syndicated via RSS, POSSE, and so forth. I like the idea of redirecting /now to the latest post tagged as now so one could see the latest version of what I’m doing now.

    Source: On Transient Slash Pages by Robb Knight

    I have always been interested in the idea of a Now page, it is something that I miss about my newsletter. However, I felt that replacing the content loses the history. I really like the idea of writing a post and having /Now pick up the latest post.

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