Dates in post titles

[achennings]

Just a note, I think having the date we post them as the title for readordie posts is kinda silly. they are cumbersome to type and they distract from the real information at the end. I would think that the date is something that should be implemented on the back-end so that the user does not have to deal with it.

[remrama]

ya u right.

I thought that was a requirement for jekyll to order the posts chronologically, but looked into it and I think the date in the header (officially "front matter") will only override the one from the filename, which should be enough for ordering. And also agree it should be removed from the blog titles.

they are cumbersome to type

On that note -- I should say that everything except for layout is technically optional. I'd like to strongly suggest adding the author too, so we know whose post is whose. But now I realize also that the title only overrides the inherent "title" in your filename.

In general I think you're right to minimize the header requirements. Hold on resolution coming...

[remrama]

Ok the blogpost header expectations have been largely reduced.

• only required variable is layout, which must always be post
• the date and title of your post are just taken from the post filename (putting them in the header still works, it just overwrites the ones from filename so not really necessary)
• still strong suggestion for still including author in your post, only to know whose post is whose
• still option to include article_doi, which if present will turn your blogpost title to a link to that address
• tags still optional

Also should note that if you aren't including something (eg tags), you do not need to have a blank variable there, just leave it off the header completely.

All these ideas are updated in the template file.

Also the date is removed from the display of the post title (ie, when published online).