Limit main articles

[alessandrogus]

Can I limit the number of files displayed on the home page? There are 30 main articles, but I would like to show 10.

Thanks!

[ryanlelek]

Your use-case makes sense. Where it gets sticky is how we handle it.

• inside the main configuration
• inside each article's yaml metadata (show_on_home: yes)
• a separate home.md file to provide a custom listing of articles and categories
• many other things I would never think of

Opening for discussion

[alessandrogus]

It is a good idea inside yaml metadata "show_on_home: yes". Also, I think that create a file "max_articles" like a "sort", in order to define how many articles of category you want.

[alessandrogus]

Another ideia: main articles can be random. If you have 100 articles in your directory, but you want show only 10 in ramdom mode.

[ryanlelek]

Both sound like good options, marking as help-wanted and up-for-grabs since it's an enhancement

[theinexplicablefuzz]

a simple thought: for directories larger than a certain size, prevent the main page from looking more than two levels into the directory -so content>folders>subfolder/.md_titles.