Detailed Change Log: Publication and Teaching Cleanup

Date: 2026-04-23 Repository: YanWin/YanWin.github.io High-level entry: website-change-overview.md

Request

Remove the homepage “Full CV” and “GitHub” buttons, remove the working paper “Amidst the Mist: The Impact of Household Inattention on Fiscal Policy,” move “The Marginal Consumption Reaction to Uncertainty” into work in progress, reorder teaching entries, remove teaching-page links except for the toolkit course, show excerpts directly below publication venues with tighter spacing, and point published-paper link buttons to the journal pages for the DEGM and price-flexibility papers.

Context Map

Files Modified

File	Purpose	Change
`_pages/about.md`	Homepage intro and teaching section	Removed the two requested buttons and applied explicit teaching ordering
`_pages/teaching.html`	Teaching archive	Applied explicit teaching ordering
`_pages/cv.md`	CV page	Added a work-in-progress section and aligned teaching ordering
`_includes/publication-card.html`	Publication cards	Moved visible excerpt text into the card body and kept the abstract toggle only for explicit abstracts
`_includes/archive-single.html`	Shared archive item renderer	Suppressed teaching-page title links unless explicitly enabled
`_includes/archive-single-cv.html`	CV archive renderer	Suppressed teaching-page title links unless explicitly enabled
`_sass/layout/_publication_cards.scss`	Publication card spacing	Tightened card spacing and added a compact metadata stack
`_publications/inflation-and-price-flexibility.md`	Published paper metadata	Added the journal article link
`_publications/endogenous-gridpoint-method-distributional-dynamics.md`	Published paper metadata	Added the journal article link
`_publications/marginal-consumption-reaction-uncertainty.md`	Research status metadata	Moved the project to work in progress
`_publications/amidst-the-mist-household-inattention-fiscal-policy.md`	Removed publication	Deleted the requested working-paper entry
`_teaching/*.md`	Teaching metadata	Added explicit order values and title-link flags
`_data/cv.json`	CV JSON export	Removed the deleted paper, aligned published links with journal pages, and relabeled the uncertainty project
`docs/website-change-overview.md`	Change index	Added the high-level summary row for this change set

Risks

Teaching detail pages still exist directly at their permalinks; this change removes list-page links rather than deleting those pages.
Publication excerpts now render directly in the card body, so unusually long excerpts will make card heights more variable.

Task Steps

Identify the homepage, publication card, teaching archive, and publication metadata files that directly control the requested behavior.
Update the shared publication card so visible summary text comes from summary or excerpt, while the abstract toggle only appears for explicit abstracts.
Remove the requested homepage buttons and publication entry, and move the uncertainty project into work in progress.
Add explicit teaching order and link flags, then use those fields in the homepage, teaching page, and CV renderers.
Update the high-level change overview and validate the affected site build.

Implementation Plan

Keep the edits localized to shared renderers and front matter instead of restructuring whole pages.
Use explicit sort_order values for deterministic teaching order across all page variants.
Keep journal links in publication metadata so the shared card can continue using the same button rendering logic.

Progress Updates

Confirmed that _includes/publication-card.html is the controlling renderer for the homepage and publications archive.
Confirmed that teaching lists are currently ordered by reversed, so explicit front matter ordering is the least disruptive change.
Confirmed that the removed working paper also existed in _data/cv.json, so the JSON export was updated to stay consistent.

Final Implementation Results

Removed the homepage intro buttons for CV and GitHub while leaving the rest of the intro section intact.
Deleted the requested working-paper file and removed the matching CV JSON entry.
Moved the uncertainty paper into the progress publication group and added a matching work-in-progress section on the CV page.
Reordered teaching entries as Ph.D. level, Tuebingen bachelor courses, Copenhagen, then Cologne.
Disabled teaching title links everywhere that uses the shared archive renderers except for the toolkit course.
Rendered publication excerpts visibly below the venue line and tightened metadata spacing in the publication cards.
Added journal-page links for the two published papers, preserving the existing PDF buttons.

Verification Notes

Focused file-level validation reported no errors in the touched templates, Markdown files, Sass, JSON, or docs.
bundle exec jekyll build could not be completed on this Windows machine because bundle install fails while compiling native gems from the repo’s older github-pages stack.
Relevant environment blocker: missing native build tooling (make/compiler), which prevents installation of gems such as RedCloth, bigdecimal, json, fast-stemmer, posix-spawn, redcarpet, and rdiscount.
Remaining visual verification should confirm the publication card spacing and teaching-link behavior in a local preview once the Ruby native toolchain is available.

Closure

Requested content and presentation changes are implemented in the owning templates and front matter.
Remaining limitation: direct access to suppressed teaching permalinks is still possible if the URLs are entered manually.
Remaining validation blocker: the current Windows Ruby environment cannot build this repo’s native gem dependencies yet.