I'm creating a Distill website to serve as an online "textbook" with topic chapters. It currently has one "docs" folder (and one "images" folder) for the website content. It's version-controlled via Github.
I would like to create a page that would be the (aesthetic) equivalent of a Listing Page (example below) for a Distill blog that has the same format: an excerpt of the chapter introduction with a (preview) image alongside. I could manually update this page as I add chapters.
Hi @howardm19. If I got your question right, you are looking for a way to automate the creation of the page. I write a function that read your list directories under a subdir of _post and create a yaml file serves as a new listing page. Every time you update any chapters in the folder, you should just run the function and it will recreate the file. Here is the code: