Hyperlink blog post h1 title on index to post

[jonaharagon]

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Description

Clicking a post title on the blog's index page should open that blog post.

I wonder if this is difficult because the post title is just part of the Markdown page content, but I've clicked the post headline only for it to do nothing enough times to warrant requesting this.

Use Cases

This is how every other blog works, it's the expected UX I think.

Screenshots / Mockups

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[squidfunk]

Thanks for suggesting. This is a reasonable request. It's not simple, because the blog index pages may contain any content that is before the post separator, so there doesn't even need to be an h1, but we can certainly try to add support for this. We will likely need to parse the resulting HTML of each blog post and wrap each h1 with a link.

[squidfunk]

Added links to posts in squidfunk/mkdocs-material-insiders@b2c8cdac4. I've not added this as an option but by default, but if other users with to disable this behavior, we could retrofit an option for this. The commit also fixes an issue where assets are not correctly linked due to caching. After all, caching post excerpts to be reused in archive and category indexes is not feasible, because URLs are completely configurable, so caching was removed as well.

[squidfunk]

Released as part of 8.5.8+insiders-4.26.2.

[hellt]

@squidfunk
Is it expected that only the permalink icon is clickable, and not the title string?

[squidfunk]

@hellt no, the whole title as on our blog. Ensure that you upgraded correctly.

[hellt]

@squidfunk I upgraded correctly, using the unmodified container build procedure.
I think this might have something with the way that I still have permalink marker and your blog doesn't. Need to figure out how to disable it maybe?

[hellt]

@squidfunk
yes, I had an outdated (?) configuration for the custom toc char:

this change fixed it