@help If I create a new page on Micro.blog, what template does it use in the theme files? How can I get it to use a different template other than the default one?

@pratik micro.blog doesn't really use pages, everything by default is a post. If you want a custom template, I recommend doing layouts/$custompagename/single.html for your template, and then create content/$custompagename.md for your content in your theme, putting the type: field in the front matter set to custompagename

@pratik single.html should just be building the main block of your baseof template.

@jsonbecker So the $custompagename.md will use the design specified in the single.html within the /custompagename subfolder? Basically, I want to create a custom page to show posts only from a couple of categories. Would I need to copy the HTML file from /layouts and then add the custom code?

@pratik you’ll take your layout for either index or your li.html (if you want to copy archive style) and copy it to layouts/custompagename/single.html. Then adjust code to filter for categories. Then add a new page to your theme called content/custompagename.md (content at top not layout). The whole content of that md file is just yaml front matter setting title and the type, where the type matches the custompagename. That says to render the md file with the single template for the matching type.

@jsonbecker Thanks. That makes sense.

thanks for the heads up on this thread @pratik