Appendix 5: Data Providers Reference

Data providers expose templating data to the template engine. They are used, among other places, by the sources.

Iterator provider

The iterator provider just provides a list of pages for a given source. This is the simplest provider.

• type: Must be iterator.

Blog provider

This provider gives some structured access to blog data.

• type: Must be blog.

The templating data exposed by this provider includes:

• posts: The list of posts in the given source.
• years: A list of years containing blog posts.
• months: A list of months containing blog posts.
• <taxonomy name>: For any existing taxonomy, lists the terms in use and, for each of those, the posts classified with it.

Each years and months entry contains:

• name: The name of the year or month.
• timestamp: The timestamp for the year or month.
• posts: The list of posts in the year or month.

Each taxonomy term entry contains:

• name: The name of the term.
• posts: The list of posts classified with the term.
• post_count: The number of posts classified with the term. It’s useful for making things like tag clouds.