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Variables

The application passes variables to the templates for manipulation in the template. Variables may have attributes or elements you can access, too.
Use a dot (.) to access attributes of a variable: {{ foo.bar }}

You can use variables from different scopes: site, page, cecil.

site

The site variable contains built-in variables and those set in the configuration.

Variable	Description
`site.pages`	Collection of all pages, in the current language.
`site.allpages`	Collection of all pages, in all languages.
`site.page(id)`	A page with the given ID.
`site.taxonomies`	Collection of vocabularies.
`site.home`	ID of the home page.
`site.time`	Current Timestamp.
`site.debug`	Debug mode status (`true` or `false`).
`site.build`	Current build ID.

Example:

title: "My amazing website!"

Can be displayed in a template with:

{{ site.title }}

Use showable method on pages collection to return only published and not virtual/redirect/excluded pages. Example:

{% for page in site.pages.showable %}
<a href="{{ url(page) }}">{{ page.title }}</a>
{% endfor %}

In some cases, you can encounter conflicts between configuration and built-in variables (e.g. pages.default configuration). In that case, you can use config.<variable> (where <variable> is the variable name/path) to access the raw configuration directly. Example:

{{ config.pages.default.sitemap.priority }}

site.menus

Loop on site.menus.<menu> to get each entry of the <menu> collection (e.g.: main).

Variable	Description
`<entry>.name`	Entry name.
`<entry>.url`	Entry URL.
`<entry>.weight`	Entry weight (useful to sort menu entries).

Example:

<nav>
  <ol>
  {% for entry in site.menus.main|sort_by_weight %}
    <li><a href="{{ url(entry.url) }}" data-weight="{{ entry.weight }}">{{ entry.name }}</a></li>
  {% endfor %}
  </ol>
</nav>

site.language

Information about the current language.

Variable	Description
`site.language`	Language code (e.g.: `en`).
`site.language.name`	Language name (e.g.: `English`).
`site.language.locale`	Language locale code (e.g.: `en_US`).
`site.language.weight`	Language position in the `languages` list.

site.static

The static files collection can be accessed via site.static if the static load is enabled.

Each file exposes the following properties:

path: relative path (e.g.: /images/img-1.jpg)
date: creation date (timestamp)
updated: modification date (timestamp)
name: name (e.g.: img-1.jpg)
basename: name without extension (e.g.: img-1)
ext: extension (e.g.: jpg)
type: media type (e.g.: image)
subtype: media sub type (e.g.: image/jpeg)
exif: image EXIF data (array)
audio: Mp3Info object
video: array of basic video information (duration in seconds, width and height)

site.data

A data collection can be accessed via site.data.<filename> (without file extension).

Examples:

data/authors.yml : site.data.authors
data/authors.fr.yml : site.data.authors (if site.language = "fr")
data/galleries/gallery-1.json : site.data.galleries['gallery-1']

page

The page variable contains built-in variables of a page and those set in the front matter.

Variable	Description	Example
`page.id`	Unique identifier.	`blog/post-1`
`page.title`	File name (without extension).	`Post 1`
`page.date`	File creation date.	DateTime
`page.body`	File body.	Markdown
`page.content`	File body converted in HTML.	HTML
`page.section`	File root folder (slugified).	`blog`
`page.path`	File path (slugified).	`blog/post-1`
`page.slug`	File name (slugified).	`post-1`
`page.filepath`	File system path.	`Blog/Post 1.md`
`page.type`	`homepage`, `page`, `section`, `vocabulary` or `term`.	`page`
`page.pages`	Collection of all sub pages.	Collection
`page.translations`	Collection of translated pages.	Collection

Use showable method on pages collection to return only published and not virtual/redirect/excluded pages. Example:

{% for page in page.pages.showable %}
<a href="{{ url(page) }}">{{ page.title }}</a>
{% endfor %}

Nested sections

In a nested sections context, page.parent, page.ancestors, page.sections and page.toplevel help you build navigation.

Variable	Description	Example
`page.parent`	Parent section's page (`null` if none).	Page
`page.ancestors`	Collection of ancestor sections (nearest first).	Collection
`page.sections`	Collection of immediate descendant sections.	Collection
`page.toplevel`	`true` if the page is a top level section.	Boolean

Breadcrumb (from the home page to the current page):

<nav aria-label="breadcrumb">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="{{ url(site.home) }}">{{ site.title }}</a></li>
    {% for section in page.ancestors|reverse %}
    <li><a href="{{ url(section) }}">{{ section.title }}</a></li>
    {% endfor %}
    {% if page.id != site.home %}
    <li><a href="{{ url(page) }}" aria-current="page">{{ page.title }}</a></li>
    {% endif %}
  </ul>
</nav>

A ready-to-use breadcrumb.html.twig partial is available:

{{ include('partials/breadcrumb.html.twig') }}

Sub-sections menu (immediate descendant sections of the current section):

{% if page.sections|length %}
<ul>
  {% for section in page.sections|sort_by_title %}
  <li><a href="{{ url(section) }}">{{ section.title }}</a></li>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endif %}

Main navigation limited to top level sections (from any page):

<nav>
  {% for section in site.page(site.home).sections|sort_by_title %}
  <a href="{{ url(section) }}">{{ section.title }}</a>
  {% endfor %}
</nav>

Link to the parent section:

{% if page.parent %}
<a href="{{ url(page.parent) }}">← {{ page.parent.title }}</a>
{% endif %}

page.<prev/next>

Navigation between pages within the same section.

Variable	Description	Example
`page.prev`	Previous page.	Page
`page.next`	Next page.	Page

Example:

<a href="{{ url(page.prev) }}">{{ page.prev.title }}</a>

page.paginator

Paginator helps you build navigation for list pages: homepage, sections, and taxonomies.

Variable	Description
`page.paginator.pages`	Pages Collection.
`page.paginator.pages_total`	Number total of pages.
`page.paginator.count`	Number of paginator's pages.
`page.paginator.current`	Position index of the current page.
`page.paginator.links.first`	Page ID of the first page.
`page.paginator.links.prev`	Page ID of the previous page.
`page.paginator.links.self`	Page ID of the current page.
`page.paginator.links.next`	Page ID of the next page.
`page.paginator.links.last`	Page ID of the last page.
`page.paginator.links.path`	Page ID without the position index.

Example:

{% if page.paginator %}
<div>
  {% if page.paginator.links.prev is defined %}
  <a href="{{ url(page.paginator.links.prev) }}">Previous</a>
  {% endif %}
  {% if page.paginator.links.next is defined %}
  <a href="{{ url(page.paginator.links.next) }}">Next</a>
  {% endif %}
</div>
{% endif %}

Example:

{% if page.paginator %}
<div>
  {% for paginator_index in 1..page.paginator.count %}
    {% if paginator_index != page.paginator.current %}
      {% if paginator_index == 1 %}
  <a href="{{ url(page.paginator.links.first) }}">{{ paginator_index }}</a>
      {% else %}
  <a href="{{ url(page.paginator.links.path ~ '/' ~ paginator_index) }}">{{ paginator_index }}</a>
      {% endif %}
    {% else %}
  {{ paginator_index }}
    {% endif %}
  {% endfor %}
</div>
{% endif %}

Taxonomy

Variables available in vocabulary and term templates.

Vocabulary

Page /<plural>/ (e.g.: /categories/).

Variable	Description
`page.plural`	Vocabulary name in plural form.
`page.singular`	Vocabulary name in singular form.
`page.terms`	List of terms (Collection).

Each term of page.terms provides term.id (term ID, e.g.: categories/php), term.name (term name, e.g.: PHP) and the number of its pages with term|length.

Term

Page /<plural>/<term>/ (e.g.: /categories/php/).

Variable	Description
`page.title`	Term name.
`page.term`	Term ID (e.g.: `categories/php`).
`page.plural`	Vocabulary name in plural form.
`page.singular`	Vocabulary name in singular form.
`page.pages`	List of pages in this term, sorted by date (Collection).

Taxonomy example

Configuration:

taxonomies:
  categories: category

Page front matter:

---
categories: ["Data Sovereignty"]
---

List of terms (/categories/), in layouts/taxonomy/categories.html.twig:

{% extends 'page.html.twig' %}

{% block content %}
  <h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
  <ul>
  {% for term in page.terms %}
    <li><a href="{{ url(term.id) }}">{{ term.name }}</a> ({{ term|length }})</li>
  {% endfor %}
  </ul>
{% endblock %}

List of pages of a term (/categories/data-sovereignty/), in layouts/taxonomy/category.html.twig:

{% extends 'page.html.twig' %}

{% block content %}
  <h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
  {% for p in page.paginator.pages ?? page.pages %}
    <article>
      <h2><a href="{{ url(p) }}">{{ p.title }}</a></h2>
    </article>
  {% endfor %}
  <a href="{{ url(page.plural) }}">All {{ page.plural }}</a>
{% endblock %}

Links to the terms of the current page, in a page template:

{% for category in page.categories ?? [] %}
  <a href="{{ url('categories/' ~ category) }}">{{ category }}</a>
{% endfor %}

cecil

Variable	Description
`cecil.url`	URL of the Cecil website.
`cecil.version`	Cecil current version.
`cecil.poweredby`	Print `Cecil v%s`, with `%s` is the current version.

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