[question] How to make certain pages behave like posts?

[FernandoHurtado]

I have certain pages (under the projects section) that I want to behave like posts (without actually being posts) in the sense that they should have table of contents and tags. I know I could just edit post.ejs but I just need the pages under /projects/ to have this layout.

##Thanks!

Here's the repo:
https://github.com/FernandoHurtado/purtechnikon

[tcrowe]

Hey @FernandoHurtado 😸

Did you arrive at a solution? If so, what was it?

Some things I usually do are putting *.md or *.html pages in directories and hexo automatically knows how to render it.

[tcrowe]

Combined with front-matter: https://hexo.io/docs/front-matter

[FernandoHurtado]

Did you arrive at a solution? If so, what was it?
Some things I usually do are putting *.md or *.html pages in directories and hexo automatically knows how to render it.

hey @tcrowe , I haven't found a solution :( . Basically what I'm asking is how to make hexo know to render pages under the /projects/ directory like it does posts.

For example, https://purtechnikon.com/projects/Journal-julia/ doesn't have an index on the side and a share button and stuff as opposed to https://purtechnikon.com/2019/02/25/Exploring-the-limits-of-Turing-Computability/ , which is formatted more properly for texts.

[yoshinorin]

@FernandoHurtado
Hi 👋

You can specify which layout do you use by each posts or pages using by Front-matter layout variable.
For example, hexo-theme-landscape has seven templates.

So, I think you should create *.md file in your _source/project directory & specify layout.

Example

// _source/project/index.md

---
layout: post //specify which layout do you use
title: "example"
date: 2018-11-13 19:02:46
---

I'm sorry if I misunderstand. Thanks :)

[FernandoHurtado]

@yoshinorin
Hi! I tried setting layout to post and it really only changed how the title looks:
It still doesn't generate the table of contents or sharing buttons :(

I checked the other layouts and none of them work either. This is my layouts folder:
https://github.com/FernandoHurtado/purtechnikon/tree/master/themes/cactus-PT/layout

[yoshinorin]

@FernandoHurtado
I tried to customize your theme, but it's difficult for me...
We need an expert who is knowledgeable in layout customize.

[stevenjoezhang]

Whether to show the share button is controlled by the theme, you can ask the maintainer of the theme for help.
Or you can try moving /projects/ to /_posts/projects/

There is a discussion about it #1067
I'm closing this issue. Please join the discussion there :)