Allow frontpage news links to redirect to arbitrary locations (#66)

Co-authored-by: Jarrod Millman <jarrod.millman@gmail.com>
scientific-python · Nov 9, 2021 · 71e8b60 · 71e8b60
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diff --git a/doc/content/getstarted.md b/doc/content/getstarted.md
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ The first post from `/content/en/news` will be highlighted on the
 front page.  If you don't want that, remove the `/content/en/news`
 folder.
 
+By default, news items link to the `/news` category page (which lists all news items).
+You can override that by setting `newsLink` in the preamble of any news post.
+
 ## Code styling
 
 To enable code styling, add the following to your config file:

diff --git a/layouts/partials/news.html b/layouts/partials/news.html
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {{ range first 1 (where .Site.RegularPages "Section" "news") }}
+{{ $newsLink := default "/news" .Params.newsLink }}
 <div class="news-container">
-    <div class="news-title"><a href="{{ relURL "/news" }}"> {{ .Title }}</a></div>
-    <div class="news-date"><a href="{{ relURL "/news" }}">{{ .Date.Format "2006-01-02" }}</a></div>
+    <div class="news-title"><a href="{{ relURL $newsLink }}"> {{ .Title }}</a></div>
+    <div class="news-date"><a href="{{ relURL $newsLink }}">{{ .Date.Format "2006-01-02" }}</a></div>
 </div>
 {{ end }}