Blog Post

Name	Type	Description
object_type	String	Will always be datastore_item
is_valid	Boolean	True if this references a published blog_post
guid	String	The unique identifier for this blog_post
value	String	Synonymn for guid
name	text	The name of the blog_post
title	text	The title of the blog_post
linked_title	String	A link to the blog_post if it has a URL, or the escaped title if not
blog_guid	String	The unique identifier of the related blog
blog	blog	Reference to the related blog object
image_guid	String	The unique identifier of the related image
image	image	Reference to the related image object
summary_html	html	Short HTML summary used in list views
content_html	html	The primary HTML content for the blog post
post_date	datetime	The primary date associated with this blog post - typically the date that it was originally written or posted and set by the content editor
tags	tags	The list of tags associated with this blog_post
authors	authors	The list of authors associated with this blog_post
has_url	Boolean	True if the blog_post has a URL
include_in_search	Boolean	Whether or not this blog_post should be returned in on-site search results
domain_name	text	The domain name used by the URL for this blog_post
url	text	The portion of the URL for this blog_post following the domain name
full_url	String	The full URL for this blog_post including the scheme, domain name, and path
visited	Boolean	Whether or not the user has visited this URL previously in their current session. Note that this will always be false if the user has not allowed session permission (see the Permissions and Personalization documentation). Using this property prevents the page from being fast-cached
template_guid	String	The unique identifier for the template that would be used to respond to this URL
template	template	The template that would be used to respond to this URL
canonical_url	url	The canonical URL if this is not the original source of content for this URL
browser_title	text	The browser title to use for this URL
meta_description	textarea	The meta description for this URL
meta_robots	text	The meta robots for this URL
keywords	textarea	The SEO keywords for this URL
search_entity_guid	String	The unique identifier for the entity that search results should be directed to (if this blog_post does not have a URL)
search_entity	entity	The entity that search results should be directed to (if this blog_post does not have a URL)
folder_guid	String	The unique identifier for the folder that contains this blog_post.
folder	folder	The folder that contains this blog_post.
field_id	String	The identifier for this field
label	String	The label for this field
output	String	The default output that the blog_post produces when output directly to the template. The default output may change at any time. Template developers should avoid using this and should handle the output of blog posts themselves
data	data	Object containing the custom fields on this blog_post
*	String	Specific custom fields may be accessed using {{ entity.fieldid }} or {{blog_post['field-id']}}

Contains multiple blog_posts.

Name	Type	Description
output	String	The default output that the blog_posts will produce when it is output directly to the template - using the "output_in_list" property of each blog_post in the items list

{% blog_post %}

{% blog_post

var|set|assign

Optional. Specify either "var", "set" or "assign" to change which scope this blog_post is stored on. "var" is the default behavior.

variable_name

Specify a variable name in order to save this blog_post to a variable. If not specified, it will be output to the template instead.

output_to_template

If included the blog_post will be output directly to the template.

{% blog_posts %}

{% blog_posts

var|set|assign

Optional. Specify either "var", "set" or "assign" to change which scope this blog_posts is stored on. "var" is the default behavior.

variable_name

Specify a variable name in order to save this blog_posts to a variable. If not specified, it will be output to the template instead.

output_to_template

If included the blog_posts will be output directly to the template.

prepend:value

Prepend the specified blog_posts before the fetched results. All prepended input will be returned in the same order that it is input. Value may one or more blog_posts, a guid, or a string.

append:value

Append the specified blog_posts after the fetched results. All appended input will be returned in the same order that it is input. Value may one or more blog_posts, a guid, or a string.

exclude:value

Prevent the specified blog_posts from being included in the fetched results. Has no affect on prepended and appended items. Value may one or more blog_posts, a guid, or a string.

exclude_prepended:true

Specifically exclude all prepended blog_posts from the fetched results. If "unique:true" is specified this is the default behavior, although you may also specify "exclude_prepended:false" to allow any prepended items to be fetched along with other results anyway.

exclude_appended:true

Specifically exclude all appended blog_posts from the fetched results. This is false by default - even if "unique:true" is specified - so that results are returned in the proper order.

unique:true

If set to true, each of the resulting lists (prepended, fetched, appended, and items) will be unique, although there may be duplicates between the prepended, fetched, and appended lists. The "items" list will include objects in the order in which they appear - with prepended items first, then fetched items, then appended items.

max_size:number

If specified, then the "items" list will only include up to the specified number of blog_posts. The "limit" may be automatically lowered to only fetch the maximum number of articles that will be included in "items" following prepended items. Note that this may also impact both the "page" and "total_pages" values. In order to use pagination with a list loaded using "max_size" use "start" instead of "page" and "limit".

Examples

Use the group_by filter to group objects by a specific property. For example, you can group a list of blog posts by blog.

{% blog_posts posts = limit: 40 start: 1 sort_by: 'date_posted' sort_direction: 'desc' %} {% var grouped_by_blog = posts | group_by: 'blog' %} {% for group in grouped_by_blog %}

{{ group.Key.title }}: {{ group.Value | size }}

{% endfor %}

{% assign var postsPerPage = 10 %} {% assign pageParam = 1 %} {% if request.query_params['page'] %} {% assign pageParam = request.query_params['page'] | to_int %} {% endif %} {% if request.query_params['tag'] and request.query_params['tag'] != "" %} {% assign tagFilter = request.query_params['tag'] | url_decode | downcase %} {% endif %} {% blog_posts assign posts = blog:"The Kitchen Essentials" tag:tagFilter limit:postsPerPage page:pageParam sort_by:"post_date" sort_direction:"desc" %} {% for post in posts %} {{post.title}} {% endfor %}

{% search output_to_template request.query_params.q type:blog_post %}

Use the random filter to get a random blog post from a list of blog posts.

{% blog_posts posts = start:1 limit:10 %} {% var randompost = posts | rand %}

Use the rand filter to get 3 random blog posts from a list of blog posts. Do not allow duplicates.

{% blog_posts posts = start:1 limit:10 %} {% var randomposts = posts | rand:3, false %}

Use the map filter to map blog posts to their linked title. The map filter could just as easily be used for any other property as well.

{% blog_posts posts = limit: 10 sort_by 'post_date' sort_direction:'desc' %} {{ posts | map: 'linked_title' | join: '
' }}

Blog Post

Blog Post

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{{ blog_posts }}

{% blog_post %}

{% blog_posts %}

Examples