[tiptronic]

I keep my local documents mostly in Markdown format (.md), where I use YAML-Headers to specify meta-data.

Is there a way to keep these headers in a (markdown-) post and possibly also use these headers to create tags?

If not: are there plans to do that? (If not, I might volunteer to add those helpers…)

---
title: Snippets
path: /snippets
date: 2061-01-01
summary: snippets to remember
categories: [Development]
tags: ["development", "javascript"]
image: images/snippets.jpg
color: yellow
---

 

[Jampi]

Hi @tiptronic,

front matter options are basically post options, most you listed are already supported by default.

<span class=”enlighter-text”>title: <span style=”color: #339966;”>covered </span></span>

<span class=”enlighter-text”>path: <span style=”color: #339966;”>covered <span style=”color: #000000;”>(post options > SEO > Post Slug)</span></span></span>

<span class=”enlighter-text”>date: <span style=”color: #339966;”>covered</span></span>

<span class=”enlighter-text”>tags: </span><span class=”enlighter-g1″><span class=”enlighter-text”><span style=”color: #339966;”>covered</span></span></span>

<span class=”enlighter-text”>image: <span style=”color: #339966;”>covered</span></span>

I don’t think <span class=”enlighter-text”>categories can be</span><span class=”enlighter-g1″> supported (I think), I don’t know how you could add.</span>

For the others you should create your own (https://getpublii.com/dev/post-config-options/#post-config-options) and add the variables in the template (https://getpublii.com/dev/post-config-options/#how-to-add-a-custom-optionbr).

[tiptronic]

Hi @jampi

thanks for the reply. It could be, we are talking about 2 different things 😉

I want the postOptions to be created dynamically from the YAML (front-matter) keys, which are entered as raw text inside a post.

When reading a post, the application looks for the front-matter and – if found – uses those front-matter-variables as postOptions. E.g.:

---
title: Snippets
custom1: Hello
custom2: This is a test
---

And then strips front-matter-variables from the output.

Then – in the template – I just can use those variables as regular ‘postOptions’

{{#if postViewConfig.post.title}}
<h1>{{postViewConfig.post.title}}</h1>
{{/if}}

{{#if postViewConfig.post.custom1}}
<h3>{{postViewConfig.post.custom1}}</h3>
{{/if}}

{{#if postViewConfig.post.custom2}}
{{postViewConfig.post.custom2}}
{{/if}}

etc … results in this:

<h1>Snippets</h1>
<h3>Hello</h3>
<p>This is a test</p>

(front-matter always wins over built-in postOptions…)

I hope this makes it a bit more obvious, what I’m trying to do.

This makes it incredible powerful to create/use NoSQL-like content, and makes it also pretty easy to ‘tune’ the output by just adjusting some templates/partials….

Does that make my intent clearer?

(Btw: if there was a plugin API, this would also make a nifty plugin, imo)

[Jampi]

Hi!

Yes I understand what you said.

You want:

—

<span class=”enlighter-text”>custom1: Hello</span>

<span class=”enlighter-text”>custom2: </span><span class=”enlighter-k1″>This</span><span class=”enlighter-text”> is a test</span>

<span class=”enlighter-text”>—</span>

So you can set a custom post config options like this:

"postConfig": [
        {
            "name": "custom1",
            "label": "insert custom1 value",
            "value": "",
            "type": "text"        
        }
        {
            "name": "custom2",
            "label": "insert custom2 value",
            "value": "",
            "type": "text"        
        }
]

In the post config you’ll find this input text to fill.

To render them in the template you use:

<h2>{{@config.post.custom1}}</h2>
<p>{{@config.post.custom2}}</p>

I it’s a little different than what you’d do in hugo, since the template language is different, and there’s a GUI instead of plain .md file, but the result is the same.

If it isn’t what you mean, sorry, I can’t help 🙂

[Jampi]

This is what you’ll see in the post options.

(link to image)

[tiptronic]

Thanks @jampi,

I’ve seen that… it’s close, but unfortunately that doesn’t work for me. I want to keep front-matter with the markdown.

I would like to have Publii take the value of the front-matter-variable and use it as value.

"postConfig": [
        {
            "name": "custom1",
            "label": "insert custom1 value",
            "value": "use front-matter-variable 'custom1'",
             "type": "text"      
       },
       {
            "name": "custom2",
            "label": "insert custom2 value",
            "value": "use front-matter-variable 'custom2'",
             "type": "text"      
       }
]

And – of course – then strip the front-matter alltogether before saving to HTML.

If there will be a plugin API available at some point to process post-data I’ll re-visit this.
Please feel free to drop me a note, if you are working on something and need some input.

And thanks again for your input…

btw. normally I code those things by hand and export via a shell, but Publii looks interesting and I really like what you did so far 🙂

[Jampi]

I’m not in the Publii team, just a user trying to help a fellow Publii user 😉

[tiptronic]

Anyway… thanks for your input!! 😉

So, if someone from the team reads this – feel free to join the discussion 🙂

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