Layouts avalible in Congo

[MikiVanousek]

From what I understand, there are only these layouts available for the pages on my Congo website:

• for the index
  • author
  • page
  • profile
• for any other page:
  • list, automatically applied to branches
  • single, automatically applied to leafs

The last 2 I was able to override with the layout parameter of my front mater. But layout: page does not seem to work. Is there a way for me to use the page layout on other pages than the index homepage?

Generally, the information about layouts was a bit confusing to me. I feel like it is a weakness in otherwise outstanding documentation. If @jpanther thinks it's a good idea, I might submit a PR, where I extend the Home Layout section of the docs to a more general Layouts section, that includes some addition information on other layouts available.

[jpanther]

Thanks for the feedback about the documentation. When you say it's confusing, are you referring to the Content Examples section?

You are correct that there's only list and single templates in the theme (ignoring taxonomies). What is it about the single layout that isn't meeting your needs?

[MikiVanousek]

The Content Examples section indeed answers all my questions about layouts. Perhaps a link You can read about layouts of other pages in the 'Content Examples' section to the Homepage layout section would make the docs easier to navigate? But it's a detail, the docs are amazing.

What is it about the single layout does not meet my needs? A lot of my pages are not blog posts, but just landing pages. I introduce my podcast, my app, etc. If the single template is applied, they show author, date, pagination and reading time by default. This is the desired behavior for blog posts, but I do not want this for my landing pages.

Right now, I just manually disable these for each page separately in the front matter.

showAuthor: false
showDate: false
showReadingTime: false
showPagination: false

First, this is award, as there are multiple pages I need to apply this to separately. Second of all, hiding all the information I want to have for my blog posts creates an awkward empty space below my title.

This is a landing page with layout: single automatically assigned to it.

The same page, if I override the layout with layout: list. Notice how the icons are exactly below the title. This is the desired behavior.
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If I were able to use the page layout that can be applied to my home page, it would resolve all my problems.