How can I have articles in Wintersmith not in their own subdirectory? - blogs

Question

In Wintersmith, the default blog template generates posts from content/articles/<article>/index.md. This is fine as it allows associated files like images to be included with the article. But in practice, most "blog posts" are just text content associated with a template. Having to create subdirs is a minor annoyance, and if editing multiple entries in a tabbed editor, it's annoying having everything named index.md.
The site generator will spit out articles/basic-post.html files, but does not include these in the generated index or archive pages. How can I get the latter to work without breaking anything?
This may or may not be a simple problem, but I'm new to Wintersmith and haven't seen how to do this. I'm not sure it's as trivial as editing the default paginator (and I am not that used to CoffeeScript, which maybe it's time to address that :)
In paginator.coffee:
getArticles = (contents) ->
# helper that returns a list of articles found in *contents*
# note that each article is assumed to have its own directory in the articles directory
articles = contents[options.articles]._.directories.map (item) -> item.index
articles.sort (a, b) -> b.date - a.date
return articles
This looks like the place, however it seems like a bad idea to directly edit a plugin, for potential future updates to work.
Wintersmith is pretty awesome btw.

Answer 1

You were right: theanswer lies into the paginator plugin.
Wintersmith will constently watch the contents folder, building a ContentTree array.
That objet array will contain a descriptor for each file and folder within contents.
The getArticles just filter this possible candidates, and you just need to enhance it to get plain markdown files in the contents/articles folder.
getArticles = (contents) ->
# helper that returns a list of articles found in *contents*
# include articles with dedicated directory
articles = contents[options.articles]._.directories.map (item) -> item.index
# add articles that are in the *contents/articles* folder
articles = articles.concat contents[options.articles]._.pages
articles.sort (a, b) -> b.date - a.date
return articles