Published June 13, 2025
render-engine did a pre-release earlier this week that fixed a lot of issues with how plugins work. This let me
update this site to truly take advantage of some things I've been working on. I am hoping to have these available for others to
use in the near future.
The first thing, which has actually been in place for a while, is the plugin that does the "most recent entries" on the home page. That was actually one of the first things I coded before I got the site up and running. At the start I did it as raw code in the main Python file of the generator. Then I migrated it to a plugin but I had to do some workarounds to get it to only do the collections I wanted. Now that we've fixed how plugins work, I have updated it to work as a full plugin without the workarounds.
The other thing you might notice (as it is pretty new) is the link at the bottom of this page to the previous post. This was something I had wanted to do for a while but it needed the changes that just became available with this pre-release. Right now this plugin does what I want it to do, but I think I'm going to make it a bit more flexible in what it exposes since what other people might want is not necessarily what I want.
I'm hoping to have these plugins available for anyone to use over the course of this weekend. You can be sure that when they are there will be a new post here about and the projects list here will be updated to include it as well. If these plugins sound interesting to you and you want to know more about them, please reach out to me on the socials.