How to make individual index.html file for each category in pelican

Question

I'm new to pelican and I recently made my personal blogs website

• My website link : hosted on github pages
• Source code : on github

  website is hosted on gh-pages branch with the help of ghp-import

Here I want to generate custom category welcome/homepage for each category. I don't want to display all the articles of that specific category. I tried this by creating index.html file in the each specific folder of category but it didn't worked. Also searched on SO and found some related answers but I cannot figure out what to do in my case Here are those questions (Mentioning it cos maybe they are helpful) :

• How do I choose a category page to be the home page for a Pelican site?
• How to customize individual category pages in Pelican
• Introduction pages for categories in Pelican

What I want?

• For example, In Shah-Aayush.github.io/content/notes/ category, I don't want to display all the pages reside in this notes category and giving more button to expand and see each category. instead I want to display custom introduction page which is index.md. so when I click on notes category on my website it opens the default generated https://shah-aayush.github.io/category/notes.html page but I want to generate https://shah-aayush.github.io/my-notes.html page which is index.md.
• Another example : in this profile category, I want to display the contents of profiles.md not displaying all contents reside in profile folder/category the 10ff.md, spotify.md, profiles.md and giving more button to expand each. so what does it display now when I click on profile : https://shah-aayush.github.io/category/profiles.html
  What I want it do display when I click profile category : https://shah-aayush.github.io/my-profiles.html

How to achieve this? Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

I do not fully understand your question. The Pelican metadata has a field called save_as on the documentation page. I have used this feature on my own website.

https://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/content.html

On your index.md file, you can have a metadata line like this,

Title: My super title
save_as: my-notes.html
Date: 2010-12-03 10:20
Modified: 2010-12-05 19:30
Category: Python
Tags: pelican, publishing
Slug: my-super-post
Authors: Alexis Metaireau, Conan Doyle
Summary: Short version for index and feeds

The second line will direct Pelican to save the output as my-notes.html.