RFC: Frontmatter for blog posts

[lrdiv]

middleman-blog gives us a title, date, and tags in new posts generated with middleman article TITLE.

I think we should come up with a new template that includes other data attributes which should be standard across all posts.

Here's what I can think of:

• Title
• Date
• Tags
• Subtitle (brief one-liner to show in hero)
• Author Name
• Author Twitter

Any feedback?

[j-mcnally]

Seems legit. How do we provide a custom template?

Also a header image for metadata/social embed might be nice.

[j-mcnally]

Author avatar. If u we collect a user email we can use gravatar.

[j-mcnally]

Category, weve often had a category as a single selection in addition to tags.

[j-mcnally]

if we want to be like medium at all we could put, Time to read with an estimate of the length and depth of the article.

[lrdiv]

@j-mcnally Here's what I've got so far...

---
title: <%= @title %>
subtitle:
date: <%= @date.strftime('%F %R %z') %>
tags:
category:
author:
  name:
  email:
  twitter:
  avatar:
time_to_read:
---

[j-mcnally]

is it possible to have configurations locally so when i run the generator it fills in the author info based on ENV vars or something

[lrdiv]

@j-mcnally Good call. Using the middleman-dotenv extension for that. Check out #2

[lrdiv]

Closed in #2