A Dynamic Now Page with Pika

Since building Pika I’ve wanted to incorporate a “now and then” sort of now page with dynamic history. With the recent flurry of updates to Pika variables, I realized that my dream could now be made reality. It turns out that my recent habit of writing Friday posts is effectively me writing what I’m doing/seeing/thinking, well, now(ish). So now my now page is no longer chronically stale! If you happen to write a “general state of things” post every week or month, you can do the same thing on your own Pika site. The page is pretty simple. First I wrote “Now” as my title. Then in the page body: {{ posts_in_stream tag: “Friday” with_excerpts: no limit: 1 }} ### Then Here’s to now pages past: {{ posts tag: “Friday” skip: 1 }} I put the body text above in a code block and wrote it as Markdown to avoid variables rendering on this post here. You may or may not be able to copy-paste the above variables into your Pika editor. And that’s it. You may notice that my “Then” pages are linked dates…