How to create a new collection to display a page which is similar to projects page

[Qiuyi-Hong]

Hello,

I would like to create a new page that is similar to the projects page. However, I am not sure how to edit the _config.yml file, and create a new page in the _pages folder. If anyone comes up with an idea, I appreciate it.

Thanks

[rqnguyen100]

Struggled with this problem for a while. You can just copy and paste the project.md file in _pages for a new page. Don't create a new folder like _project. Keep all your projects in that folder and use different categories. The projects with a certain category will show up on their respective pages.

[RehmatSChawla]

That's very elegant, I love it!

[wyhallenwu]

I have successfully achieved this goal. And I modify three files.

First, you need to add a new collection(for me I create a new collection named albums) in the collections in _config.yml(around line 167)

collections:
  news:
    defaults:
      layout: post
    output: true
    permalink: /news/:path/
  projects:
    output: true
    permalink: /projects/:path/
  albums:
    output: true
    permalink: /albums/:path/

Then, you have to make a new folder and its name should be the _albums. It plays the same role as folder _projects.

Finally, you need to create a file albums.md in the _pages. And copy the content of the file projects.md to it. But there are two places you have to modify.
around line 18 and line 40 (in copied albums.md file), change the site.projects to site.albums

If my answer is not clear, you can check my modified repo https://github.com/wyhallenwu/wyhallenwu.github.io.