Front matter

Front matter is YAML, between two lines of --- at the very top of a page:

---
title: A new oven
date: 2026-10-08
summary: The new oven is in, so we open earlier.
tags: [News]
---

The page itself.

Every page

Key	What it is
title	The page's name. Required for pages search engines see.
summary	One sentence for search results, lists and link previews (description works too).
date	When it was written, 2026-10-08. Sorts collections.
updated	When it last changed meaningfully.
tags	A list of subjects: [News, Opening hours].
image, image_alt	The link-preview picture, and what it shows.
draft	true keeps it off the published site.
publish_at	Leave it off the live site until this time (2026-06-01 07:00, in the site's time zone).
noindex	true asks search engines not to list it, and leaves it out of the sitemap.
layout	Which layout to use, such as landing for a page of sections.
sections	The sections the page is built from (see Sections).
form	A form from forms/ to show on the page, by name.
weight	A number for ordering, in collections sorted by weight: lower comes first.

Addresses

Key	What it is
slug	The last part of the address, instead of the file's name: slug: hours makes content/opening-hours.md live at /hours/.
url	The whole address, for a page outside a collection: url: /visit/ (must start with /).
redirect_to	Make this page a redirect to another address.

Events

On pages in an events collection (see Events):

Key	What it is
start	When it starts. Required. 2026-11-07 18:00, or a date for all day.
end	When it ends.
location	Where.
link	Tickets or sign-up.
status	cancelled or postponed.

Pages kept as HTML

Key	What it is
format	html for a page written in HTML instead of Markdown. Imports set it where Markdown would lose something.

Anything else you add is available to templates as .Params, such as .Params.subtitle.