Fetch landing contents by ID

2023-12-08 09:00 WIB - Hendrik Lie

Some of our pages used to contain published entries of type post with a certain slug. It makes little sense since by default posts with type post has no viewer that uses slug as its URL. It makes even no sense that the target post must be published.

If a post is of type post, it is not meant to be found after all. After all, it does not matter on whether it is published or not. It would be impossible to find one from public interface either way.

It also hinders us in more ways than one, as we cannot rename the title without causing our website to crash. Therefore fetching contents to fill up landing page and about page (and any other page if it matters) should use one property that should never change: its UUID.

We have it already implemented, which enables us to freely rename the title (as long as the title is unique) of posts used in our views, without crashing our website. It also allows us to easily manage them when we already have our admin page, as we can simply shift through all posts, and select one that we want to appear by UUID.