Featured articles with list shortcode on home page

[danielwagn3r]

Dear Blowfish community,

first of all, thank you for the great Blowfish theme and all the efforts invested in it 🙏

For my website I'm trying to add a list of featured articles on the first page. Therefore I created a /content/_index.de.md file with following content:

---
layout: "home"
---

{{< list title="Featured" cardView=true where="type" value="featured" limit=6 >}}

In some of the articles I added the following in the front matter:

type: "featured"

Generating the website doesn't lead to any errors or warnings, the title of the list is shown as well, however none of the articles is shown in the list.

I tried using featured: true before, but that didn't workout eighter.

I'm using hugo v0.154.5 with blowfish gitref 3a9016a

What am I missing or is there a more Blowfish native way, to get a featured articles cardview list on the homepage? Thanks

[n4zukker]

Hi. I don't completely understand the where, value and type logic. However, in my site, I used:
{{< list limit=1 where=Type value=events title="Latest event" >}}
and it shows the latest event from the content/events folder.

Perhaps this can get something working for you.

[danielwagn3r]

Oh, that's weired. Seem's the parameters of the list shortcode are case-sensitive, but in a way that's counterintuitive to me. Using the same frontmatter code as above, with your suggested modification {< list title="Featured" cardView=true where=Type value=featured limit=6 >}} the cards on the first page are rendered.

Next I'll try to figure out how I can add a picture and some description or summary to the card.

[ideenwelt]

Yes, that worked for us too. 👍

[danielwagn3r]

Did anybody of you manage to get cardViewScreenWidth working together with the list shortcode? I only was able to configure the default Recents list with the parameter, but it didn't have any effect on the shortcode.