I’m still fiddling around with poet, the node.js blog generator and it’s really easy to add additional meta information like an author link for collaboratively driven sites.
Assuming you want to power a site with poet as a multi-user blog, you can easily attach the meta information in the individual MarkDown files:
{{{ "title" : "Amazing Tutorial", "tags" : [ "JavaScript" ], "category" : "Sanity", "date" : "2013-07-20", "author" : { "nick" : "Jonathan", "url" : "http://jonathanmh.com"} // additional line }}
After that, these informations will directly be available inside your templates when you render the posts. Assuming the views from the example repository, these are changes you could make to your template files:
post.jade:
extends layout block content article.post h1 a(href=post.url) = post.title span.date #{post.date.getFullYear()}.#{post.date.getMonth()+1}.#{post.date.getDate()} - if (typeof(post.author) != 'undefined') span.author p by a(href="#{post.author.url}") #{post.author.nick} div.post.content != post.content div.tags - each tag in post.tags a(href=tagUrl(tag)) span.label.label-info #{tag}
includes/postSnippet.jade
div.post .script(console.log(#{post})) h1 a(href=post.url) = post.title span.date #{post.date.getFullYear()}.#{post.date.getMonth()+1}.#{post.date.getDate()} - if (typeof(post.author) != 'undefined') span.author p by a(href="#{post.author.url}") #{post.author.nick} article.post.content != post.preview div.tags - if (typeof(post.tags) != 'undefined') - each tag in post.tags a(href=tagUrl(tag)) span.label.label-info #{tag}
With this method, you can add all kinds of meta information, that you might like with your posts 🙂
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