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Andrew (he/him)
Andrew (he/him)

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A Mild Complaint

...actually just two problems.

  1. As far as I can tell, there is no obvious link to the Dev.To Editor's Guide which (really reads more like an "Author's Guide" and) is a supremely useful resource for when I forget how to format a liquid tag or something in a post. I think I had to discover for myself that you can embed Dev.To users and posts within your own posts and comments.

    Embed a user with {% user jess %}:

    or a post with {% link awwsmm/getting-the-gist-of-java-15eg %}

    or even a specific comment with {% devcomment 6hpe %}

    Yo dawg, I heard you like browsers.

    There are also embeds for Twitter, Glitch, GitHub, Gist, and lots more. The ability to do this is really cool and I don't think I would have known about it if I hadn't stumbled across the Editor's Guide.

  2. How do I do this?

    Other people seem to know how to make a series of articles into a series of articles, but it's not in the Editor's Guide. Help!

Update:

Another thing I only just discovered: you can add a Table of Contents to the top of your post using inline anchors:

## TOC
  * [Chapter 1](#chapter-1)
  * [Chapter 2](#chapter-2)
  * [Chapter 3](#chapter-3)
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Ben Sinclair

It's the little information icon on every post or comment you author?

information icon

I agree it could do with having a link somewhere common, like maybe the footer, but it's on the page contextually where it's needed.

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Andrew (he/him)

Nice! But that's only how it appears on comments. On posts, it's different:

So I propose two things:

  1. A unified UI across posts and comments
  2. Adding all of this info to the Editor's Guide, and making the Guide a permanent fixture on the user drop-down menu.
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Ben Halpern

Good thoughts all around.

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Ben Lovy • Edited

Holy crap that's how you do that.

A wholehearted "second" - even discovering "cover_image" was a little tricky. The message "just paste it into your editor" is only half the battle!

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Basti Ortiz

You can add a series to your posts by adding the series tag in the front matter of your post. For example:

---
title: Cool title!
tags: some, tags, here
series: The Name of Your Series
---

Your post here...

Just refer to the same series name to add the post to the series. Our great friend Ben here created an entire changelog for it.

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Andrew (he/him)

Ah! I see! And in the V2 editor, you can click on the ... button at the top-right to open this window:

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Ben Halpern

This PR just got merged to help 🙂

Though I suspect it still may not be fully clear. We need to keep working on this.

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chenge

Thanks, I learned the trick. :)

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Shashi

That actually showed me a lot of things I didn't know. Thanks!