Multiple Blogs on one index page

[kenny-chua]

Hi there,

I understand that you can use the blog plugin and create several blogs for one site.

So far, I've only been able to figure out creating blogs that appear on the top navigation bar. Is it possible to have a regular navigation page, and a listing of blogs. For example in this mock up.

I am thinking like a page of projects and each project has a diary/blog.... thank you for your time.

[kamilkrzyskow]

Hi @kenny-chua,
each instance of the blog plugin is isolated and unaware of each other, there is no built-in functionality to merge them all into one page.
However, if you'd like you could do some Python hacking shenanigans and create a hook or plugin to aggregate the information from multiple blogs and then either add elements in the Markdown using the hook or define a Jinja2 template with the aggregated data.

I did something similar with the latest_blog_posts plugin/hook over at mkdocs-nype, which you could reference to develop your own variant. You would have to do so, since the reference logic expects to be placed in index.md and you want to move it to projects/index.md

There also other plugins that extend the functionality of the blog plugin, so consider having a look ✌️

References:

• Ways to extend the Material theme (Nype SAP) #8223
• https://npe.cm/ (how the posts are embedded)

[kenny-chua]

Thank you @kamilkrzyskow Good information to know! I'll take a look at your example. Appreciate the help!