Working on making the now page dynamic. I no longer want to manually update this page – the hassle makes me do this less often.

@pratik I did somehow manage to stitch a page which does that. The page lists the last 5 posts with the Now tag and a couple of list for last read books and watched movies (all credit to @mtt for the inspiration). But this hasn’t been easy. I may have to let this settle to figure out if there’s a simpler (pluginable?) way.

@amit @pratik Let me know if I can help in anyway. I haven’t worked out how to turn into a plug-in or even a theme as of yet, not sure if it’s even possible.

@Mtt I will give it try tomorrow to see if I can turn this into a plug-in. To be frank, the widgets look trickier. Other aspects might be possible, though. @pratik

@amit Yeah, that’s what I was referring too. Too many unknowns with setting up individual integrations with the different services for one.

@Mtt Yep, too many custom stuff here. A how-to of sorts might be easier.

@amit Good call. May need to throw that together. Especially for ones that are fed with RSS.

@pratik It’s a little more complicated than I thought it would be. I found a post here that has some suggestions. I’ll need to play around with it more to figure it out.

@pratik Few things. The page content/now.html should be content/now.md (it is a markdown file, not HTML) and include type: now in the front matter. The actual layout page would be in layouts/now/single.html. Once that’s setup, whatever you put in the .md file can be displayed by using {{ .Content }} in the layout. As an example, the html file could be:

{{ define "main" }}
<div class="page" .title .content end then add correct classes and extra content as desired.></div>

@pratik You can duplicate those files into your theme but they need to exists as is. That’s what does the work of grabbing the bookmarks from pinboard.

@pratik Hmm. Do you mean in the partials? It has my username because what you’re seeing on Github is the full live version of my site.

@pratik Alright, found what you were talking about. And that lead me down another rabbit hole. But in the end, I was able to simplify the Pinboard part even more. So fewer scripts and such than the original version. For your sake, I would just compare what you have with the modified files on Github and make the changes. Basically deleting a line on the pinboard partial and modifying one line on the pinboard.js.

@pratik Here ya go for Now category at top.