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# Aider chat conversation:
USER: is there a way to generate the index.md file from the blog entries (which should also provide their date) rather than creating it manually?
ASSISTANT: Yes, we can create a script to generate the `index.md` file from the blog entries. This script will read the metadata from each blog entry and generate the `index.md` file accordingly.
Let's create a new Python script `generate_blog_index.py` to achieve this:
generate_blog_index.py
```python
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import os
import frontmatter
BLOG_DIR = "content/blog"
INDEX_FILE = os.path.join(BLOG_DIR, "index.md")
def generate_index():
blog_entries = []
for filename in os.listdir(BLOG_DIR):
if filename.endswith(".md") and filename != "index.md":
filepath = os.path.join(BLOG_DIR, filename)
with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
post = frontmatter.load(f)
title = post['title']
date = post['date']
url = f"/blog/{filename.replace('.md', '')}/"
blog_entries.append((title, date, url))
blog_entries.sort(key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
with open(INDEX_FILE, 'w') as f:
f.write("+++\ntitle = \"Freenet Blog\"\n+++\n\n")
for title, date, url in blog_entries:
f.write(f"[{title}]({url})\n\n{date}\n\n")
if __name__ == "__main__":
generate_index()
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```
This script will:
1. Read all markdown files in the `content/blog` directory.
2. Extract the title and date from the front matter of each file.
3. Generate the `index.md` file with links to each blog entry, sorted by date in descending order.
You can run this script whenever you add new blog entries to regenerate the `index.md` file.
USER: no, I don't mean with a python script, I mean using the zola templating language
ASSISTANT: To generate the `index.md` file using the Zola templating language, we can use a template to list all the blog entries dynamically. We will create a new template file for the blog index and update the `index.md` to use this template.
First, let's create a new template file `templates/blog_index.html`:
templates/blog_index.html
```html
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{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block content %}
<h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
<ul>
{% for section in sections %}
{% for page in section.pages %}
<li>
<a href="{{ page.permalink }}">{{ page.title }}</a><br>
{{ page.date | date(format="long") }}
</li>
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endblock content %}
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```
Next, we need to update `content/blog/index.md` to use this new template:
content/blog/index.md
```markdown
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title = "Freenet Blog"
+++
[Weekly Dev Meeting - Gateway deployment, freenet-chat](/blog/1127-weekly-dev-meeting-gateway-deployment-freenet-chat/)
10th June, 2024
[Weekly Dev Meeting - Enhancing Connection Stability and Finalizing Transport Fixes](/blog/1097-weekly-dev-meeting-enhancing-connection-stability-and-finalizing-transport-fixes/)
24th May, 2024
[Weekly dev meeting - network integration testing and squashing final bugs](/blog/1081-weekly-dev-meeting-network-integration-testing-and-squashing-final-bugs/)
11th May, 2024
[Weekly dev meeting - progressing Towards Network Stability](/blog/1074-weekly-dev-meeting-progressing-towards-network-stability/)
3rd May, 2024
[Weekly developer meeting summary](/blog/1067-weekly-developer-meeting-summary/)
28th April, 2024
[Weekly developer meeting summary](/blog/1048-weekly-developer-meeting-summary/)
17th April, 2024
[Weekly developer meeting summary](/blog/1035-weekly-developer-meeting-summary/)
12th April, 2024
[Weekly developer meeting summary](/blog/1030-weekly-developer-meeting-summary/)
5th April, 2024
[Weekly Developer Meeting: Updating State and Performance Optimizations](/blog/900-weekly-developer-meeting-updating-state-and-performance-optimizations/)
22nd November, 2023
[Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Anonymous Reputation in Freenet](/blog/882-zero-knowledge-proofs-and-anonymous-reputation-in-freenet/)
29th October, 2023
[Proof-of-Trust: A Wealth-Unbiased Consensus Mechanism for Distributed Systems](/blog/799-proof-of-trust-a-wealth-unbiased-consensus-mechanism-for-distributed-systems/)
28th August, 2023
[Mitigating Sybil attacks in Freenet](/blog/456-mitigating-sybil-attacks-in-freenet/)
26th June, 2022
=======
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title = "Freenet Blog"
template = "blog_index.html"
+++
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```
These changes will allow Zola to dynamically generate the blog index page using the `blog_index.html` template. The template will list all the blog entries with their titles and dates.- Loading branch information
