Add .HeadlessPages to site variable.

[regisphilibert]

Because Headless pages are excluded from every page collections, there is currently no easy way to iterate over a set of headless pages.

Along the line of .Site.RegularPages and .Site.AllPages, would it be possible to create a new site variable (.Site.HeadlessPages) where all the Headless pages of one site would be stored and easily accessed (using where, sort etc...) by the users.

I think people will need to range on their headless pages eventually. I see a lot of use cases where they are used as data with a bundle… (sponsors, ads, team members) resulting in dozens of headless pages which, at some point in a template, need to be conveniently iterated over.

As of today, I don’t see any easy way. You have to know where to look in order to create a range on their filename and then use .GetPage on each of them inside the range like described here.

Also see this thread.

[budparr]

This would truly solve the issue I raised last year, too. #3612

[bep]

I don't think so. I think the people asking for this are asking for something else. As in, it would be a hack to solve #3612

[budparr]

What would solve #3612? As it stands, I am still using the hack mentioned in that post.

[regisphilibert]

I don't think so. I think the people asking for this are asking for something else.

They may want for a way to include both normal pages and headless pages in a call, but I Understand the absurdity of it (and don't want it), hence my suggestion of giving an access to headless pages only.

I have not used headless pages in any of my project yet, so I don't feel very opinionated about this issue yet, but by the look of it, people will have to hack their way around this restriction (using a lot of .GetPage) or eventually drop the use of Headless page bundles when needing to display more than one a page.

[openscript]

We are using some workaround, because this feature is missing. We flag all headless files and remove them during the build process with a script. We had to add some stuff to the sitemap as well.

Currently we are not using the intended functionality of headless pages at all.

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[TonioGela]

+1

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