Newsletter archive using routes

Developer help Routing
1

I am trying to create a newsletter archive page. I have followed a few threads on the forums but I’m running into issues where it does not work.

Here is my routes file. I have at least one publish post with the tag News. It shows up at /tag/news but not in /newsletters (which is empty besides the header/footer.

routes:

collections:
  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

  /newsletters/:
    permalink: /newsletters/{slug}/
    template: archive
    filter: tag:news    

taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/

I have tried some variations of tag:News tag:news , would appreciate any insight on what I’m doing wrong here. Thanks!

2

Try replacing the order of the collections…

  /newsletters/:
    permalink: /newsletters/{slug}/
    template: archive
    filter: tag:news 

  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

Routes are crazy powerful, but I would not use the word ‘intuitive’.

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3

Brilliant! That worked. Good to know the order is critical here. Much appreciated @mheland !!

4

OK whoops, I spoke too soon.

What this did seems to be:

  1. News posts on /newsletters/ – great!
  2. Index page is now completely reset to just an archive page with the exact same content, now working on trying to recover it.
5

Seems to be some kind of strange caching issue, logged in it was showing me a different result for the home page as when I’m logged out in a different browser. So far it’s holding.

I now have this as my routes list, without the filter, seems to be working ok as a newsletter archive now, fingers crossed.

routes:

collections:
  /newsletters/:
    permalink: /newsletters/{slug}/
    template: archive  
     
  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index

taxonomies:
  tag: /tag/{slug}/
  author: /author/{slug}/
6

Great, maybe you also want to exclude tags with filters and the minus-sign before…

  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template: index
    filter: tag:-notthistag+tag:-andnotthisone
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