"More News(All news)" page should display contents of all news instead of just date and title

[sdash-github]

Currently the LIS news page(from MORE NEWS link), https://www.legumeinfo.org/news/ displays just the date, title & summary and lacks the news contents. To see what has been the news one has to click on by one (not ideal).
Asking for approval from @adf-ncgr
At PeanutBase Sven accomplished this by including a news.html file under _layouts/ whose code is below. This uses markdownify to spit the news content from each of the .md files into the news all page.

I use this at PB to

• review the progress and write progress reports,
• to check what we have already covered in previous news,
• to update a news about a tool if the previous one doesn't mention the current enhancement, etc.

_layouts/news.html

---
layout: default
---

<h1>News</h1>

<dl class="uk-description-list uk-description-list-divider">
{% for post in site.categories.news %}
<dt><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></dt>
  <dd>{{ post.content | markdownify }}</dd>
{% endfor %}
</dl>

[sdash-github]

PB news all page for comparison:
https://dev.peanutbase.org/news/
LIS: https://www.legumeinfo.org/news/

[sdash-github]

PB news all page for comparison: https://peanutbase.org/news/
LIS news all: https://www.legumeinfo.org/news/

[sdash-github]

Creating the layouts/news.html file works in my local instance.

[adf-ncgr]

Hi-
I don't have any strong opinions about this, but can definitely see your point regarding not wanting to make people click through each item in the list. It's probably worth asking other people's opinions, as I don't think I should be the sole arbiter of this, esp. since I think if we make a change it should probably go into the starter site and propagate to all of the forked versions (including soybase). I could imagine that someone might think paginating things or dividing up by year instead of putting everything in one page might be good (for example). @StevenCannon-USDA @maxglycine @alancleary probably should all get to weigh in, at least.

[alancleary]

Personally I don't think having the full content of each news items listed on the news landing page is very palatable. But that's just my opinion. I think pagination is a good idea regardless.

A comment on the example you gave @sdash-github, I don't think titles of anything should have abbreviations, such as the "USDA-NPGS Natl. Prog. Leader Job" news item.

[StevenCannon-USDA]

I'll cast my vote in favor of the verbose "all news" version of @sdash-github and Sven. It's good to reduce clicks and to enable within-page "find".

Pagination: might be nice to have, though I don't think the PeanutBase all-news page is objectionable (even all 11 years worth) - so personally, I wouldn't invest the effort into adding pagination in this case (unless it happens to be dead-easy).

[alancleary]

Pagination: might be nice to have, though I don't think the PeanutBase all-news page is objectionable (even all 11 years worth) - so personally, I wouldn't invest the effort into adding pagination in this case (unless it happens to be dead-easy).

I won't say it's dead-easy but pagination is a fundamental Jekyll feature so the effort to implement it will be relatively minimal.

[maxglycine]

If you use the HTML tag "details", the details are part of the document, so I think it would be available for a page search but be "invisible" until you clicked the "details", I think.