Exclude files from _metadata.yml

[ma-riviere]

Hi,

Let's say I have a blog folder, within which are multiple subfolders, each containing a blog post.

Within that blog folder, I have an index.qmd file for the listings, and _metadata.yml file with YAML properties I want to apply to each of the blog posts.

How can I exclude the index.qmd of the blog folder from those properties ? I want the properties to apply to each blog post but not the index page that lists them. For context, the property I am trying to not apply to the index.qmd is an html file that I add using include-before-body.

Thank you :)

[dragonstyle]

I think your best bet would be to put all of your posts in a subfolder and put the _metadata.yml file for them in that subfolder.

[ma-riviere]

Yeah, that was my first thought too. But I wanted to see if there was a cleaner way to do this (i.e. without messing with my existing file structure).