I’ve started a campaign of redoing my blog in Zola, but without a theme. I likely won’t use themes again, going forward, as theme author are inconsistent in supporting their work. I chose one where I have to compile an older version of the Zola binary to get it to work.
I’m having a devil of a time understand the difference between a section and a page. I had a small breakthrough this morning, where I realized, for example content/about/_index.md gives the meta data and content for a template in templates/about.html. I could lay out my whole site with just sections, given what I now understand, but am having a really hard time understanding how pages fit in and what a use case would be.
I’ve tried reading the relevant doc sections a couple of times, but it’s just no sticking. May anyone enlighten me?
Journal in this appears as a Section, ie it contains an _index.md (note the underscore). The journal section also contains sub-sections for articles, stroke and watches. Blog Is another section.
Pages, such as about-this-site, colophon, contact, index-of-pages, privacy, reading, rss-feeds and uses, all contain an index.md (no underscore) file.
Thanks…I thought this helped, but in practicing just now on my own project, I’m still not understanding the difference between pages and sections.
I could create my whole site with sections, with an _index.md in each individual folder, and never make a page. I’m still not fundamentally understanding when you would use a page vs a section.
