2012-09-15 - Top

Lately I've been thinking about a way to set up certain posts as semi-permanent, meaning they don't get cycled out. This could be useful for announcements or really important posts (I’ve been thinking about doing this because I want to post one such item), ensuring that they stand out but still appear after other things have been posted. The easiest way would have been to just insert the items into the index directly but that breaks the automation design philosophy I've been going for and it also makes it hard to convert the top posts back into normal posts when they are no longer important. So I decided to just use a different file name (replacing top for post) and then setting up the archive and index pages to also check for files with that name. This makes the process automatic and it also means that a file name change is the only thing required to demark an item. If all goes well this should show up as one such item for a little while.