Markata uses python's powerful jinja2 templating library for its templates as well as giving authors the ability to inject variables right into their markdown posts. This post contains quite a few examples of using jinja variables, compare it's output in the browser to the raw markdown file in pages/jinja.md.
__version__
The veresion of markata used to build the site. (0.5.3)
date
A python datetime object. (2023-01-15)
Frontmatter
All variables from your post frontmatter like title (Jinja Variables) and tags (['home', 'meta']). If you are not familiar with frontmatter it's the content at the top
of a markdown file between ---. Markata uses the most common type of
frontmatter, yaml.
---
# this is the frontmatter
date: 2022-09-29 13:26:33
title: Home Page
---
## the post
markdown gets written after the frontmatter
markata
The last variable exposed is an instance of markata.Markata called markata.
This allows you to reference all of your other posts in very interesting ways.
such as getting the latest post -> Creating Your Feeds
You can also map over posts to get more.