WIP Blog proof of concept

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Agile6 Blog POC

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[DanielMiller-agile6]

I forgot that you were already on leave @amponce , so no worries on making changes :). I'll make any necessary changes to the branch and handle merging the PR. Enjoy your time with the new family member!

[JQuaggles]

Is there anything blocking more than 2 showing on the page? I added a 3rd test in the preview-44 but it didnt get added. Aaron had mentioned some of the items weren't connected that were needed to do that in preview, but just wanted to check on that.

[DanielMiller-agile6]

think i fixed it, but I might be able to simplify this for a bit, at least until we have a plan for pagination.

On the "Blog" page in the CMS admin, you need to go to the "Blog Posts" widget and add all of the blog posts you would like to show up on the blog page. This looks to be inspired by the other similar features we have, like case studies, where we can select which items we'd like to display in this grid list, or omit some. I've already changed this in the preview admin and checked in the change, but here's a screenshot of this widget from the "Blog Page" cms editor:

I think we could remove this functionality, and then setup the blog page to attempt to render all blog posts (with a max limit) instead of the selected blog posts from the page editor 🤔... however this functionality does allow us to manually prune our list of blog posts, so can be helpful until we have a pagination plan. We could also try to sort the blog posts to show the most recent ones first if that sounds reasonable for now?

[JQuaggles]

No, it's ok, I'm dumb. Literally did the same thing to Aaron last week and completely forgot... "wah wah I cant get it to work" "do this" ... "oh yeah." That was me last week.

[JQuaggles]

But yes to the most recent first if that is possible

[DanielMiller-agile6]

i took a quick look at using timestamps to use for sorting blog posts, but this is actually a little trickier than I hoped, so I'll look some more tomorrow. we could either:

• add a new "datetime" widget to the blog post CMS admin, which can be set by the author (with a handy "now" button to use current time). could be bit error prone, and would require rewriting created/modified times for existing 3 posts.
• use "modified time" and/or "created time" from git to append timestamps to content as node fields. might give us a nice way to automate this and not burden content authors with manually messing with timestamps
• investigate how netlify cms UI can sort posts by "updated date". it appears like thy keep track of this somehow, but iit doesn't appear to be available in our content queries. might not be possible currently, but worth some more investigation.

[JQuaggles]

LOL Build failure due to an upgrade that literally took place today. https://answers.netlify.com/t/unsupported-build-image-message-today-rather-than-november-15th/76375

[DanielMiller-agile6]

i'm looking into upgrading our build image and see if that resolves things

[DanielMiller-agile6]

ok, think we're good with the new image. i retried the build and seems to work, so new content should be available to view from the preview link.

@JQuaggles can you try making a CMS edit again for the preview site and publish to test out the auto-deploy again?