content blocks possible?

[Tijn Imrat Jn]

im trying to achieve the following with docpad:

layout example:

default.html.eco

<div class='main'>
<%= @content %>
</div>


<div class='sidebar'>
<%= @sidebar %>
</div>

and then feed @content and @sidebar from each document file, for example

index.html.md

---
layout: 'default'
title: 'This is the page title'
---


This is the main content. I can use **markdown** formatting.


--- sidebar:


This is the sidebar content. Again I can use **markdown** formatting.

Is this currently supported?

Whats the best way of achieving this so that a single document file can be used to create blocks of content?

One way would be to include the sidebar content as a metatag. Downside of this seems to be that it does not apply the marked rendering. Also it becomes cluttered when your meta tag includes lots of content.

Any suggestions?

[Benjamin Lupton]

Hey! Good question.

If you install the text plugin - http://docpad.org/plugin/text - you'll be able to accomplish markdown or whatever rendering anywhere (so even inside meta data attributes), enabling you to do something like this:

default.html.eco

<div class='main'>
<%- @content %>
</div>


<div class='sidebar'>
<%- @document.sidebar %>
</div>

index.html.md

---
layout: 'default'
title: 'This is the page title'


sidebar: '<t render="markdown">This is the sidebar content. Again I can use **markdown** formatting.</t>'


---


This is the main content. I can use **markdown** formatting.

There's a plenty other ways you could do such a thing as well, but that above way will work right now and works well enough. The other way that comes to mind is to do up a plugin that implements exactly what you mentioned. It's possible, but I think that may be a bit too much effort at this point in time.

[Tijn Imrat Jn]

Yeah i had figured out that I could use meta data and post that into different sections of the layout.

The render='markdown' is great i wasnt aware of that.

I guess the issue remains with larger pieces of content which contain multiple lines, headings, links and images. Im also not sure i can use new lines in the meta vars as this will break the script.

It would be great to have a "content" block feature as described.

[Mads Høbye]

I vote +1

It would enable much more dynamic content.

On a side note: my website (www.hobye.dk) has been running pretty well for a long time now and it is fun to optimize bits and pieces on an ongoing basis.

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[Tijn Imrat Jn]

Liking that site alot Mads. Do you run docpad in static or dynamic mode?