Blog with posts in root directory

[davidmytton]

The standard blog behavior is to have all posts in a subdirectory which the listing reads from to create the index of posts e.g. example.com/posts/post-title.

Is there a recommended method for having posts in the root directory e.g. example.com/post-title/? I understand I could just create new pages in the root, but then I believe that would lose the listing & RSS feed functionality? Or is the same limitation as discussed in #1408 related to permalinks?

[dragonstyle]

Hi,

Listings are driven by their contents as a glob (https://quarto.org/docs/reference/globs.html) - you can point the listing at really any contents and it should successfully create a listing page and feed for that group of items. For example, to capture all index.qmd files that are in a subfolder one level below the current directory, you could do something like:

---
title: "Listing Example"
listing:
  contents:
    - "*/index.qmd"
---

I'm not sure about best practices for organization - but this should support just about any organization that you find productive.

HTH!