Is it possible to access the toc of a different page than the current page?

[divSelector]

For example, at the top of toc.html it has

{% set toc = page.toc %}

But under a certain condition, I'd like the toc used to be the main page's toc, so that it just links out to the posts on the front page. I'm using the blog plugin and its specifically those titles and urls that I want.

[kamilkrzyskow]

Hello @divSelector,
accessing different TOCs should be straightforward, there is the global context with:

• nav, which contains pages, a flat list of Page objects
  • so you access the page and toc with a loop for page in nav.pages and then page.toc
• pages, a flat list of File objects
  • so you access the page and toc with a loop for file in pages and then file.page.toc

As for the application, I'm unsure whether it would work like you envision it 🤔, as the toc likely doesn't contain actual links including the file path, but instead they probably just contain the #href_id nothing more, so you'd have to tinker with it to get the result you want. So perhaps a custom toc.html is also required to merge the page.url with the #href_id.

You'd also have to extend the theme together with block overrides and modify how the blog-post.html works to replace the toc of a given blog post.

Or separate the changes into blog-post-special.html and use the template front matter, however, I'm not sure if it's supported by the blog 🤔

[divSelector]

I see what you're saying. I'll think about it. What I ended up doing is just having a hand selected group of links to insert onto pages with that category (as extra links) so that there is something more targeted to link out to. I think it works out better anyway. Thanks for the response.