Other page variables not getting passed to page layout

[Simon-Tang]

I have a _layouts/redirect.html like this:

---
layout: base_layout
status: Redirecting
---

In base_layout.html I can access {{ page.redirect.to }} as expected, but cannot access any other variables like {{ page.status }}.

[benbalter]

Right now, the redirect page is logically a distinct page from the page that declares it, meaning we set the redirect metadata, but don't carry over the declaring page's metadata. It wouldn't be difficult to implement (not sure if it makes sense), but that's not currently implemented. Can you talk a bit more about what you're trying to do?

[Simon-Tang]

I understand and agree with your point on the redirect page being separate from the page that it redirects to - however what I'm curious about is declaring a page variable in the redirect.html that can be accessed in the layout that it uses.

In my example, I define a variable in the front matter of the redirect.html file and tell it to use the layout base_layout. The behaviour I expected is that base_layout would be able to access the variable defined in the front matter of redirect.html.

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