Filter newsletters from homepage

Developer help Routing
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Hey folks, I am using the Source theme and trying to keep my newsletters (with tag ‘Newsletter’) from showing up on my homepage and from my blog posts and RSS. I had this working at one point, with Casper, but I can’t for the life of me remember how I got it working with my routes.yaml. I’ve gone through the tutorial, and the posts in the forum, but nothing I’ve tried works.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

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Okay, I think I have the RSS part figured out just by filtering out the tag from the blog collection and using /blog/rss as the RSS feed.


collections:
  /blog/:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index
    filter: tag:-[Newsletter]
  
  /newsletter/:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index
    filter: tag:[Newsletter]

Still trying to work out the homepage, though.

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Yes, using the documented methods, the source template doesn’t filter out the tags on the home page. There must be a way.

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Source is making #get requests on the homepage, and those requests don’t know about your routing file. The workaround is a pretty easy tweak to the theme files. (Doable for self-hosters and anyone with a plan that allows uploading a theme, which is pretty much everyone except Basic users on Ghost Pro.)

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I see. I was under the impression that the filtering tutorial and documentation would work across all Ghost authored themes. It should be noted in the tutorials which themes the suggested techniques apply.

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Good point! Paging @RyanF ! In addition to Source, I think Headline is also impacted.

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Thanks Cathy. I did try tweaking the theme files but couldn’t get the result that I wanted. I went back to using the Ubud theme, which makes it easier to control what appears on the home page.

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Hi, I’m also struggling with how to filter my home page posts in Source theme. My tag filter works on the #get request to filter the “latest” list in post-list.hbs, but I haven’t been able to get a filter working for the #foreach loop in header-content.hbs for the Magazine layout. I’ve tried:
{{#foreach posts filter=“tag:breadandstories” limit=“7” }}
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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You need a routes.yaml to say which posts are in the / collection. Any time you see foreach not inside get, that’s what’s going on. :slight_smile:

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Thanks, Cathy! That did the trick.

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