Extend site_meta with parametrized values stored in the docs folder

[9Lukas5]

Hey, I'm not sure if I'm missing something I can't see or it's just not possible, what I'm trying to do

My Folder structure:

docs
└── title-of-page
    ├── text.md
    └── values.jinja
overrides
└── main.html

What I'm trying to do is, I want some more things in the site_meta, for which I made the main.html override.
The things I wanna add should be individual for each page I make, stored in the values.jinja file right beside it.

So what I tried, is this:

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block site_meta %}
  {{ super() }}

  {% set valuesFile = page.url | replace("text.html", "values.jinja") %}
  {% set values = dict() %}
  {% from valuesFile import values %}

  {% if values.title %}
    <meta property="og:title" content="{{ values.title }}">
  {% endif %}
  {% if values.description %}
    <meta property="og:description" content="{{ values.description }}">
  {% endif %}

{% endblock %}

But it always fails with TemplateNotFound.
Something's not right with the attempt to grab the right path anyway, because if I manually set a string for valuesFile the error message also includes the Template I tried to load, which is just empty if I try it from the variable.

So I have basically two questions:

• Can I import something from the docs/ directory in an override?
• If so, what's the best way to extract the path of the values file?

[squidfunk]

In order to override templates, you must go through the theme extension process. You can't put templates into docs. If you want to define data individual to each page, front matter is your best option, which you can use inside templates with page.meta.*.

[9Lukas5]

Mhhhh, ok I see how this would be accessible with the information from the last link.

Thing is, I constructed this 🤓 :

docs
├── pages
│   └── title-of-page
│       ├── text.md
│       └── values.jinja
└── index.md

index.md:

{% for entry in config.nav %}
{% if entry is defined %}
{% for entry in entry.pages %}
    {% set markdownFile = entry.values() | list %}
    {% set markdownFile = markdownFile[0] %}
    {% set valuesFile = markdownFile | replace("text.md", "values.jinja") %}
    {% import valuesFile as post %}
## [{{ post.values.title }}]({{ markdownFile }})

<p class="introduction" markdown>
<span class="date">{{ post.values.date }}</span>  
{{ post.values.description }}
</p>

---

{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}

This lets every page automatically popup on the index page with its title, date and description.
I put these values into a separate file and imported it in the index file as well as the dedicated page file, as the page.* variable wouldn't be accessible from the index.md.

And in the page YAML header where I can set the meta variables, which would be accessible from the theme template, I were not able to use {{ variable }} 🤔

Any idea how I can write the description once, and have it accesible on a per page basis

• in the page in question
• from another page
• in the theme templates

👀