html.plated_plugin.blog

#^_blog_json
{
    posts_per_page:5,
    posts_per_feed:20,
    url:"http://base.site/url/",
    feed:{
        title:"Feed Title",
    }
}

A chunk of this name must be created in a directory scope file for this plugin to parse it. posts_per_page is the number of posts per page, we will create as many pages as we need.

posts_per_feed specifys the number of posts to publish in the feed.json file. Which will be published using any data suplied in feed which can contain any valid jsonfeed values. The base url must also be suplied since feeds are expected to be copied to other domains. This url is intentionally seperate from _root as it must be explictly set and we can not get away with relative paths here.

Every directory within this blog directory will now be treated as a blogpost.

See source/blog for an example of this all fits together. Inside each of these directories we look for.

#^_blog_post_json
{
    "title":"my title",
    "author":"my name",
    tags:["tag1","tag2"],
    feed:{
        attachments:[{url:"http://domain.full/thing.mp3",mime_type:"mime/type"}],
    }
}

Which contains metadata about the blog post, the feed object can contain any valid jsonfeed settings, by we try and set useful defaults from the rest of the metadata. All of these values can also be used in your templates to render the blog posts.

#^_blog_post_body form=markdown
This is my blog post body.

Our blog body is to be found in this chunk name, probably best to use markdown as it makes writing blog posts easier.

When it comes to generating the pages then the following chunks should be setup in base directory.

#^_blog_page_body
This is a page of blog posts, eg the front page.

Within this chunk we provide _blog_page_older as the url of an older page and _blog_page_newer as the url of a newer page. If there is no newer or older page then this will be empty. _list will contain an array of blog posts that we intend to display in this page. It will be at least one post and no more than the posts_per_page setting.

#^_blog_post_body
This is a single blog post, when viewed on its own page.

Within this chunk we provide _blog_post_older as the url of an older page and _blog_post_newer as the url of a newer page. If there is no newer or older page then this will be empty. _blog_post_body will contain the _blog_post_body as defined in the blog post directory.