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For some of my entries I want to have a title, for some of them I would prefer not to have one. I modified the Blog template with

{{#title}} <h1>{{title}}</h1>{{/title}}

and I thought that would solve my problem. I.e. if the post didn't have a title then there would be no title shown, but Blot uses the file name as a title if there is not title in the frontmatter. I tried having an empty title, i.e.

title:

but then the title became "null". Is it possible to have some entries to have no title?

a year ago, 5 replies templates title metadata Improve this question

I've been playing around with this and looked at the JSON output. What seem to work is to use

{{#metadata.title}} <h1>{{title}}</h1>{{/metadata.title}}

Answered a year ago · Improve this answer

I realized that it would be useful for me to be able to define metadata that represents true/false. However, when I enter something like this

meta1: false

meta2: yes

both meta1 and meta2 is represented as strings. Is it possible to define metadata that have a bool value?

Or am I approaching this in the wrong way. When I try out what I want to to do in the mustache demo page everything is working the way I want but there I'm able to define bool values in the JSON file.

Answered a year ago · Improve this answer

It's not possible to define metadata with a bool, but an empty string or the non-existence of metadata will be 'false' as far as mustache is concerned, e.g. if you add this to only one entry, leaving it out of the others:

meta1: yes

And then do this in your template:

{{^metadata.meta1}}
... will show on the one entry
{{/metadata.meta1}}

{{^metadata.meta1}}
... will show on the others
{{/metadata.meta1}}

In terms of answering your question, I'd consider avoiding setting title metadata in any of your posts, instead using a title tag when you want the title to appear, like so:

# Title here

... post here

And then in your template, take advantage of the {{titleTag}} template tag like so, removing any uses of {{metadata.title}} or {{title}}:

{{{titleTag}}}
{{{body}}}

The result should be what you're after! Please let me know if you have any questions

Answered a year ago · Improve this answer

Thanks, I'll play around a bit more and then decide how to handle things

Answered a year ago · Improve this answer

Sounds good – feel free to email me with a link to your site and I'll be able to advise you on the specifics

Answered a year ago · Improve this answer