Have posts and pages on main panel?

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Hi folks,

I’m trying to setup a dashboard on my panel where I can display both posts and pages, but I’m very new to Kirby, so struggling with this a little.

I have my home page set to my blog page in config.php and my posts are obviously children of that blog page. I’ve setup a panel for my blog page that works great, that looks like this:

title: Blog
icon: book

columns:
  left:
    width: 2/3
    sections:
      listed:
        extends: sections/articles
        label: Published Posts
        status: listed

  right:
    width: 1/3
    sections:
      drafts:
        extends: sections/articles
        label: Drafts
        status: draft

      unlisted:
        extends: sections/articles
        label: Unlisted Posts
        status: unlisted

So I put this same snippet of YML into my site.yml file, so it looks like this:

title: Site

columns:
  left:
    width: 2/3
    sections:
      listed:
        extends: sections/articles
        label: Published Posts
        status: listed

  right:
    width: 1/3
    sections:
      drafts:
        extends: sections/articles
        label: Drafts
        status: draft

      unlisted:
        extends: sections/articles
        label: Unlisted Posts
        status: unlisted

      pages:
        type: pages
        label: Published pages
        status: listed

It displays ok, but it isn’t showing any of my published blog posts, or drafts. All the sections are just blank. I’m clearly doing something very basic wrong, but I can’t for the life of me work out what that is.

In case it’s needed, here’s the contents of my /sections/articles.yml file:

type: pages
label: Articles
info: "{{ page.published.toDate('d M Y') }}"
template: article
empty: No articles yet
sortBy: date desc

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Kev

2

The parent is missing; while it defaults to the current page (and therefore works on the blog page), you have to explicitly add it for other contexts.

type: pages
parent: site.find('blog')
#...

On a side note, there is no difference between posts and pages like in WordPress, all is pages.

3

That worked perfectly, thank you so much.

I realise it’s all just pages, I’m just trying to separate them in my brain while I make this transition. FWIW, I’m not currently using WP, but Jekyll.

Thanks again,

Kev