Blogdown Website post - Hide date and/or title of post

Question

I would like to remove the date from a post without having to manually delete from the html from the public folder after running blogdown::build_site().

I have a post called Gallery which has the following yaml header in the Rmarkdown file at the top:

---
title: Gallery
date: null
output:
  blogdown::html_page:
    date: null
---

This is how it is rendered in the public/gallery/index.html file:

<div class="item">
    <h4><a href="/gallery/">Gallery</a></h4>
    <h5>January 1, 0001</h5>
</div>

Anyway to remove/hide it without doing it manually?

I'm using the minimal theme https://github.com/calintat/minimal/

Answer 1

What you are asking for is not natively packed with the theme. But a simple line of tweak will do.

1. Create folder layouts/partials/ in your repo(if it does not exist).
2. Copy themes/minimal/layouts/partials/list-item.html to layouts/partials/list-item.html

3. Change this line:

   <h5>{{ $.Scratch.Get "subtitle" }}</h5>
   

   to

   {{ if not .Params.hidedate }}<h5>{{ $.Scratch.Get "subtitle" }}</h5>{{ end }}
   

4. In the yaml header of your post, add hidedate: true, like this:

   ---
   title: "Creating a New Theme"
   tags: ["go", "golang", "hugo", "themes"]
   hidedate: true
   draft: false
   --- 
   

This will turn off the date; other normal posts remain unaffected.

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