Featured Post help

[mpg]

Hello, I’m working on a blog and trying to create a Featured Post thing. I initially found a thread here, but the thread is a few years old and didn’t quite give me the answer I need. (Best practice to set post as featured)

I’m still very new so I don’t know if I’m calling things their proper name, but I have a file in content called _index.md which has front matter featured_post = "posts/test-post-original.md" and this is controlled by a dropdown in Forestry which selects a Post. All of that functionality is good except that when I try to access .Params.featured_post all it contains is a string. In Javascript (my main language) this might be a whole post object and I could access all of its .Params. How can I get this effect in Hugo? Or, what is the correct way to do this? Thank you very much for your help

[mpg]

I’m now thinking maybe using some way to iterate through all of the posts like how I use this elsewhere

{{ range (where .Site.RegularPages "Section" "posts") }}
  {{ .Render "post-tile" }}
{{ end }}

but maybe there’s a way to only show the post where the file name matches the value of featured_post? Not sure how to write this.

[pointyfar]

Use site.GetPage: https://gohugo.io/functions/getpage/

{{ if isset .Params "featured_post" }}
  {{ with .Site.GetPage .Params.featured_post }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}
{{ end }}

[mpg]

Perfect, this works exactly as needed!