Including A Blog Within My Website

[samarzayan]

Hi there! This is a very noob-level question. My apologies in advance. Just began learning how to use Quarto.

I am creating a personal website and wish to create a blog within it. Should I do this within the main website directory (mysite)?

Thanks in advance.

[dragonstyle]

Welcome! If you're adding a Quarto blog to an existing Quarto website, it should be largely about creating a 'listing' page. Just make a blog.qmd page with this yaml:

---
title: "My Blog"
listing:
  contents: posts
  sort: "date desc"
  type: default
  categories: true
---

And the place your post qmd files in the posts folder (including in subfolders). Learn more here: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-listings.html

Does this make sense?

[samarzayan]

Yes, makes sense. Thanks so much.

[JosiahParry]

This is somewhat helpful. There are utilities in packages like blogdown and hugodown that will create a new template for you e.g. blogdown::new_post() which creates a new directory with an associated index.md file. Is this structure supported and automated with quarto? Viewing the quarto --help there don't seem to be any utilities for this.

Does quarto support the structure of having 1 folder per post? Are there utilities to create a new post with the appropriate organization?

[smithjd]

Here's a nice solution to creating blog post structures automatically:

Tom Mock blog