Addin for post creation?

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Addin for post creation? #33

Closed maelle closed 4 years ago

maelle commented 4 years ago

blogdown New Post Addin is really nice when your theme is compatible (e.g. uses authors, not author)
ymlthis also has an addin.

Differences with new_post()

ymlthis and blogdown use whoami for the full name. usethis full name could still be prioritary but then whoami is a good guess and doesn't require configuration.
blogdown addin loads existing tags and one can create new tags.
blogdown addin lets you choose from several archetypes (e.g. if you have one for Rmd and one for md)
having an user-friendly interface :-)

hadley commented 4 years ago

TBH I really don't like the add-in, and much prefer the code based system. I think most of the issues you point out could be resolved without an add-in:

I forgot about whoami::fullname(), so I could definitely use that
Ok, I can't do this one
new_post() does that automatically based on the directory (i.e. just like hugo)
Given that you have to edit the yaml by hand anyway, I don't think it's a hug advantage

maelle commented 4 years ago

Right, setups with different archetypes for the same directory are probably not the norm. :-) I'm not sure about addin vs code (whether it's more usual to prefer one or the other) but what's sure is that it's probably a lot of maintenance work.

I forgot about whoami::fullname(), so I could definitely use that

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