Can't get landing / contact page working

[decentral1se]

The README isn't quite clear as to how to get the landing / contact page working. What needs to be done exactly?

A landing.md, contact.md with the Title, Heading. Subheading, etc... in content/ ??

[motiteux]

I am going to add a +1 on this. I am facing the same difficulty to create a landing/contact page. When adding the following content/landing.md (the example from the docs):

Title: Landing
Heading: Hello! My Name is John Doe
Subheading: Some subheading sentence to put int.
Template: landing

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This one fails when using make html, on the missing date in the metadata. Adding it made me reach a new fail:

pelican /var/www/isopa/content -o /var/www/isopa/output -s /var/www/isopa/pelicanconf.py 
CRITICAL: 'page' is undefined
make: *** [html] Error 1

[motiteux]

Well, found it... Using DEBUG mode, here is the stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/bin/pelican", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pelican==3.3', 'console_scripts', 'pelican')()
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/__init__.py", line 350, in main
    pelican.run()
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/__init__.py", line 181, in run
    p.generate_output(writer)
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/generators.py", line 475, in generate_output
    self.generate_pages(writer)
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/generators.py", line 369, in generate_pages
    self.generate_articles(write)
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/generators.py", line 263, in generate_articles
    override_output=hasattr(article, 'override_save_as'))
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/writers.py", line 211, in write_file
    override_output)
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/writers.py", line 148, in _write_file
    output = template.render(localcontext)
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 969, in render
    return self.environment.handle_exception(exc_info, True)
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 742, in handle_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/themes/pelican-cait/templates/landing.html", line 1, in top-level template code
    {% extends "base.html" %}
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/themes/pelican-cait/templates/base.html", line 34, in top-level template code
    {% block content %}
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pelican/themes/pelican-cait/templates/landing.html", line 11, in block "content"
    <h1>{{ page.heading }}</h1>
  File "/home/marco/.virtualenvs/pelican/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 397, in getattr
    return getattr(obj, attribute)
jinja2.exceptions.UndefinedError: 'page' is undefined

And in ~/pelican-themes/pelican-cait/templates/landing.html, I read this:

        <header id="intro-header">
            <h1>{{ page.heading }}</h1>
            <h2>{{ page.subheading}}</h2>
        </header>

Which made me guess, the landing.md, mentioned earlier. has to go to content/pages. And boum, it works.

I have set a PR to emphasize its location, should that be necessary to anyone else, but me.

Thanks

[decentral1se]

hey, turns out that your current working blog is a perfect reference for getting a working site : https://github.com/hdra/hndr.me

[hdra]

Those files needs to go to your static pages directory, which is defined in your pelican config file. I updated the doc to clarify this a little bit more.

[decentral1se]

cool!

[Yog]

motiteux, you have made my day :)

[enriqueojedalara]

Thanks @motiteux, you save me the debug time, you rock!