Frontmatter

All pages optionally support having some metadata associated with them, called the frontmatter.

The frontmatter metadata is formatted using yaml and surrounded, above and below, with ---.

Example:

---
title:   My first Blogpost
published_date:    2016-01-01 21:00:00 +0100
layout: posts.liquid
---
Hey there this is my first blogpost and this is super awesome.

My Blog is lorem ipsum like, yes it is..

Default Frontmatter

---
title: ~
description: ~
published_date: ~
format: Raw
layout: ~
is_draft: false
permalink: path
slug: ~
excerpt_separator: "\n\n"
excerpt: ~
categories: []
tags: ~
data: {}
---

Overriding defaults from filename

Cobalt will infer some information from the filename.

Recognized name formats include:

• slug.extension
• YYYY-MM-DD-slug.extension
• YYYY-MM-DD slug.extension

The two later ones are only recognised on build as publish managed the published_date and prepend the date to the filename by default.

Field Descriptions