Create a new static page using blogdown with same hugo theme as main site

Question

I'm using the R package blogdown to create a hugo-powered website. Specifically i'm using the gcushen/hugo-academic theme.

The tutorials by @xieyihui and @apreshill have been wonderfully helpful to get started, and adding new posts is clear, but what about a new static page that uses the same theme as the overall site?

I get that it can be as simple as creating a new .md file with

+++
date = "2017-08-01"
title = "new_page_test"
type = "pages"
+++

## new page test

stuff

My questions are

1. where do I store this file so that it is copied properly to the public folder?
2. how to I link to this new page from another page? I'm not clear on the organization of the final file structure that gets published.

Answer 1

I'm doing this for my classes. You can see the end result here , click on "teaching". You can see the source files in the GitHub repository . In particular look under the content/classes folder.

1. Create a folder under content. I called it classes but it can be called anything. Add an _index.md file to this folder. I edited _index.md from the posts folder so it would automatically create a list of the contents of /classes.

2. This is drop dead easy! The relative link to a page, say content/yourstuff/yourpage.html is, wait for it, yourstuff/yourpage.html . With an index file in yourstuff the relative link is just yourstuff/ . Follow the same structure to add subdirectories. I was blown away.