Ability to set page as index instead of articles

[onlyhavecans]

While I know it's still an old world way of doing sites but it might be a good feature to add the ability to set another page to be the front page when you go to the site. This would have to be broken into two settings as I see it. (This is how wordpress does this)
One is the setting to pick the page, by slug name that would be written as index.html IE frontpage = kittens-rule
Then there would be a separate setting along the lines of posts-page = blog where in the case of this the "index" template would instead be written out as blog.html (and blog[n].html in the case of pagination) and it would be added to the page list to be linked to in the header.

I'm not sure the need or desire for the feature is there enough to justify the code changes...

[almet]

some people already asked for that, so if you have the need, I'm +1 to drive you to do these changes if you need some help.

Big +1 on this feature.

[domenkozar]

+1 on this one :) It's basically the only feature I missed from pelican.

[almet]

@tbunnyman do you want to work on this for 3.0?

[onlyhavecans]

I think 3.0 is due in... 10 hours... so while I will work on this I don't think it's going to make 3.0

[tomrandle]

+1 I'd love to see this too.

[synapticarbors]

+1 I'd like to see this as well

[treffynnon]

+1 Would be great to see this feature included

[remram44]

+1 I need this, might work on it (or write a dirty patch if it's too difficult)

[onlyhavecans]

@remram44 If you need this now the "dirty patch" is to to this with your theme
ie. Set static or page content to index.html and put your articles loop on a different page like posts.html or something. It works all right.

This is a fairly involved patch but it is on the top of the list�.

[treffynnon]

@tbunnyman Great to hear its a priority. I am hoping to have an introduction at the top of just the index page with a small list of the latest three posts below it. If that in anyway affects the way the patch would be implemented.

[onlyhavecans]

@treffynnon That sounds like something you want to do with your theme more than anything else.

[remram44]

Apparently it is possible to make it work using:

INDEX_SAVE_AS = 'blog.html'
PAGE_SAVE_AS = '{slug}.html'
PAGE_URL = '{slug}.html'

(this removes the pages/ subdirectory altogether, which I don't need)

However, 'blog.html' has then to be added to the theme if you want it to be accessible (via MENUITEMS?)

[brodul]

+1

[almet]

@tbunnyman any news on this one? Is it still on your plate?

[onlyhavecans]

Yes sir.
No realy news to report other than I have been brainstorming the how on and off

[houqp]

+1 on this :)

[thomersch]

+1 would love to see this

[justinmayer]

Thank you, Bruno, for implementing this feature. Much appreciated! 😺