[Question] [How-To] Apply layout to the pages which are not in `/content/posts`

[arampatzis]

Hi @1bl4z3r. Thank you for maintaining an beautiful theme.

As the title says, the description does not appear in pages that are located in a folder with a name different than posts.

Is this the intended behaviour? Is there a workaround?

Thank you for your time.

[1bl4z3r]

Hi @arampatzis,

It looks like that is the intended behavior, as it was untouched from original project. Also, I didn't account for utilizing separate directory for pages.

There is always a workaround, that requires you to get your hands dirty with layout templates.

Or,

Gimme this weekend, I will add support for customized folder structure for pages.

[1bl4z3r]

Hi @arampatzis,

It's me again.

I have checked thoroughly, and just wanted to let you know you can absolutely do as you have asked.

Some Mandatory General Knowledge:

• Layout of "posts" content is located in /themes/hermit-V2/layouts/posts. This would be applied to all content that is in "posts" folder by default. This includes all the fancy (I'm using fancy over-zealously) page descriptions, author name and tags.
• By default, layout can only be added to page that matches in the lookup order

So, how to apply same layout to different pages that doesn't satisfy the lookup order?

You can do that in one of two ways (after adding your pages to /content/<YOUR_FOLDER_NAME>):

• Copy contents of /themes/hermit-V2/layouts/posts to layouts/<YOUR_FOLDER_NAME>. There are only two files.
• Add this additional front matter to your pages -

type: posts

OR

type = 'posts'

---

If you are getting some weird issues, let me know in this issue thread. I will look into this. I'm keeping this Issue as open

[arampatzis]

Thank you @1bl4z3r for the fast reply. I tried the second solution you provided and it works perfectly! Thanks!