How to use site config file to determine which pages on site front page?

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Hi, I want to list some pages on my front page and change it regularly. I think it would be easier if I can just make a list at the config.toml file and change it there to pick the right page whenever I needs to.

Here are my content structure:

└── content
└── about
| └── index.md
├── courses
| ├── 105
| | └── _index.md
| | └── 1.md
| ├── 110
| | └── _index.md
| | └── 1.md
└── 208
…

At my config.toml file, I add a [params.course] variables and list pages I want to show on front:

[params.course]

front = ["105","110","205"]

And in the front page template, I have:

{{ range (.GetPage "/courses").Pages "in" site.Params.course.front }}

{{ end }}

And I got error : at <"/courses">: wrong number of args for Pages: want 0 got 2"

Can anyone tell me how to get this right? Or any other better way to get this done? I know the Page.Params can do it but I don’t want to change the individule page frontmatter everytime. Thank you in advance!

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Try something like this

{{ $courses := (.Site.GetPage "/courses").Pages }}
{{ range $courses }}
  {{ $shouldShow := in $.Site.Params.course.front .File.BaseFileName }}
  {{ if $shouldShow }}
    <!-- Render your pages here ... -->
  {{ end }}
{{ end }}
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Thank you so much @zwbetz! It works very well!

Just one more follow up question, if I want to use $.Site.Params.course.front to match section/folder instead of markdown file, how would I do it? right now, I am using .Title instead of File.BaseFileName like this:

{{ $shouldShow := in $.Site.Params.course.front .Title }}

Because my content structure is like:

content/en/courses/105/_index.md 1.md 2.md
content/cn/courses/105/_index.md 1.md 2.md

the .Title only show the title from _index.md front matter filed but not the actual sub section/folder name, like 105. then I had to set both languages of the title for the $.Site.Params.course.front I am wondering is there are something like .Title but for the actual section/folder name? would be great to fix my problem.

Thank you and Merry Christmas!!

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Glad to hear it’s (partially) working.

Am not sure about that one. You could play around with .File.Dir too.

Or you could try filtering the pages down with a where clause first.