Feature Request: new_post function / RStudio Addin

[christian-million]

A function and/or RStudio Addin that allows users to create the skeleton for a new blog post. I used the new_post functionality in blogdown a lot and would love to incorporate a quarto version into my workflow.

Quarto comes with a "website:blog" project type, which signals a common-enough use case for this kind of functionality. For now, it could just create a new post in the posts directory (by default). Eventually it might use a dedicated "website:blog" yaml parameter to indicate which directory the new post should be located in?

Something like:
(using quarto-web directory as example)

website:
  blog: docs/blog/posts

and then quarto::new_post("my_new_post") would create docs/blog/posts/my_new_post/index.qmd

[njtierney]

I would also really like some capacity to add this feature!

[mccarthy-m-g]

I made an RStudio new post addin for {distill} through the {distilltools} package awhile back (inspired by {blogdown}). Just mentioning it here since Quarto is a spiritual successor to {distill}, so some of the work there might be helpful in the implementation for this package. Here’s the relevant PR.