yosymfony / spress-plugin-dataloader

Load data located at _data/ folder of your site

Data loader plugin for Spress

Loads data located at ./src/data/ folder of your site.

This plugin requires Spress >= 2.0. If you are using Spress 1.x, go to 1.0.0 version of the plugin.

How to install?

Go to your site folder and input the following command:

$ spress add:plugin yosymfony/spress-plugin-dataloader

How to use?

Go to your Spress site an create ./src/data folder. In this folder you can to create JSON, YAML, Markdown or Textfiles that will be available in site.data.<yourFilenameWithoutExtension>.

Example with an users array and a Json file:

./src/data/
|- blogUsers.json

Example with an users array and a Yaml file (the extension yaml is valid too):

./src/data/
|- blogUsers.yml

For markdown files the extension md or markdown are valid. Text file extensions are txt or text. Markdown and text files are available as string.

Access to this data in Twig templates:

{% for theme in site.data.blogUsers %}
...
{% endfor %}