Create skeleton of blog feature

[mattstratton]

Fixes #19

This is a work in progress; still need to do a bunch of stuff:

• Make individual blog pages look nice
• Tweak the row and grid layouts with more metadata (author, etc)
• Update the feed to work properly
• Add "subscribe to blog" button on home page
• Update HEAD to include blog rss instead of episode on blog-related pages
• Update docs

Signed-off-by: Matt Stratton [email protected]

[mattstratton]

You can poke around (row view only right now but the code is in for grid) at https://deploy-preview-310--sample-castanet.netlify.app/blog/

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[chrisreddington]

@mattstratton - Is there anything you'd like me to pick up from the to do list to help out? :)

[mattstratton]

Is there anything you'd like me to pick up from the to do list to help out? :)

I'd say take any of them - just let me know which ones so we don't try to do it at the same time :)

[chrisreddington]

Is there anything you'd like me to pick up from the to do list to help out? :)

I'd say take any of them - just let me know which ones so we don't try to do it at the same time :)

Cool! I'll likely not have a chance to look before the weekend, but will drop a note as soon as I take a look :)

[chrisreddington]

@mattstratton - I'm starting work on the metadata pieces

UPDATE - I have a PR (which will be merged into your add-blog-feature branch) for review on the metadata pieces, also added a .Reverse to the queries, as they were showing the oldest blog items first.

#324

[chrisreddington]

@mattstratton - I'm also working on updating the HEAD and the subscribe to blog piece.

[chrisreddington]

@mattstratton - I'm also working on updating the HEAD and the subscribe to blog piece.

That one is now done, so I believe the following 3 are left -

• Make individual blog pages look nice
  • I'm not the greatest UI guru, so i'll steer clear of this one 👍
• Update the feed to work properly
  • I wasn't quite sure what this one meant, as the blog and episode feeds look to be working correctly from my local environment?
• Update docs
  • Happy to take this one, but wanted to make sure that we weren't going to add any additional frontmatter before starting to document.

UPDATE: I have updated in PR #324 as well.

[mattstratton]

Update the feed to work properly

this just meant I haven't really looked at the feed to make sure that all the items are correct/include all the things that a "good" blog RSS feed should have. I have to check to see what those fields/content should be; the blog feed might be fine already!

[mattstratton]

I think we can open up a new issue for cosmetic enhancements for the individual blog posts and then this should be able to ship

[chrisreddington]

I think we can open up a new issue for cosmetic enhancements for the individual blog posts and then this should be able to ship

Makes sense to me. In which case, I think that all the original items in the issue (aside from cosmetic enhancements) are complete? :) Thanks!

[mattstratton]

I'll merge this and some others and cut a release!

[chrisreddington]

I'll merge this and some others and cut a release!

Great, thanks @mattstratton - It's now in action over at https://www.cloudwithchris.com/ :)

This allows me to merge my own blog/site into my podcast site, and have one central place to manage everything. On a related point to that, I've made a private change to my own private fork to show a parameter of "ShortBio" if it exists in the Guest/Host file, instead of the main content.

The reason for that, is for example my own bio shown here is very long, and I'd like a shorter snippet elsewhere. I've been consistent on ShortBio across guests and hosts for consistency, so can propose that as a PR if it's a useful addition.

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