Page Bundles

Content organization using Page Bundles

Page Bundles are a way to group Page Resources.

A Page Bundle can be one of:

Leaf Bundle (leaf means it has no children)
Branch Bundle (home page, section, taxonomy terms, taxonomy list)

	Leaf Bundle	Branch Bundle
Usage	Collection of content and attachments for single pages	Collection of attachments for section pages (home page, section, taxonomy terms, taxonomy list)
Index file name	`index.md` ¹	`_index.md` ¹
Allowed Resources	Page and non-page (like images, pdf, etc.) types	Only non-page (like images, pdf, etc.) types
Where can the Resources live?	At any directory level within the leaf bundle directory.	Only in the directory level of the branch bundle directory i.e. the directory containing the `_index.md` (ref).
Layout type	`single`	`list`
Nesting	Does not allow nesting of more bundles under it	Allows nesting of leaf or branch bundles under it
Example	`content/posts/my-post/index.md`	`content/posts/_index.md`
Content from non-index page files…	Accessed only as page resources	Accessed only as regular pages

Leaf Bundles

A Leaf Bundle is a directory at any hierarchy within the content/ directory, that contains an index.md file.

Examples of Leaf Bundle organization

content/
├── about
│   ├── index.md
├── posts
│   ├── my-post
│   │   ├── content1.md
│   │   ├── content2.md
│   │   ├── image1.jpg
│   │   ├── image2.png
│   │   └── index.md
│   └── my-other-post
│       └── index.md
│
└── another-section
    ├── ..
    └── not-a-leaf-bundle
        ├── ..
        └── another-leaf-bundle
            └── index.md

In the above example content/ directory, there are four leaf bundles:

about: This leaf bundle is at the root level (directly under content directory) and has only the index.md.
my-post: This leaf bundle has the index.md, two other content Markdown files and two image files.
image1: This image is a page resource of my-post and only available in my-post/index.md resources.
image2: This image is a page resource of my-post and only available in my-post/index.md resources.
my-other-post: This leaf bundle has only the index.md.
another-leaf-bundle: This leaf bundle is nested under couple of directories. This bundle also has only the index.md.

Headless Bundle

A headless bundle is a bundle that is configured to not get published anywhere:

It will have no Permalink and no rendered HTML in public/.
It will not be part of .Site.RegularPages, etc.

But you can get it by .Site.GetPage. Here is an example:

{{ $headless := .Site.GetPage "/some-headless-bundle" }}
{{ $reusablePages := $headless.Resources.Match "author*" }}
<h2>Authors</h2>
{{ range $reusablePages }}
    <h3>{{ .Title }}</h3>
    {{ .Content }}
{{ end }}

In this example, we are assuming the some-headless-bundle to be a headless bundle containing one or more page resources whose .Name matches "author*".

Explanation of the above example:

Get the some-headless-bundle Page “object”.
Collect a slice of resources in this Page Bundle that matches "author*" using .Resources.Match.
Loop through that slice of nested pages, and output their .Title and .Content.

A leaf bundle can be made headless by adding below in the Front Matter (in the index.md):

headless = true

There are many use cases of such headless page bundles:

Shared media galleries
Reusable page content “snippets”

Branch Bundles

A Branch Bundle is any directory at any hierarchy within the content/ directory, that contains at least an _index.md file.

This _index.md can also be directly under the content/ directory.

Examples of Branch Bundle organization

content/
├── branch-bundle-1
│   ├── branch-content1.md
│   ├── branch-content2.md
│   ├── image1.jpg
│   ├── image2.png
│   └── _index.md
└── branch-bundle-2
    ├── _index.md
    └── a-leaf-bundle
        └── index.md

In the above example content/ directory, there are two branch bundles (and a leaf bundle):

branch-bundle-1: This branch bundle has the _index.md, two other content Markdown files and two image files.
branch-bundle-2: This branch bundle has the _index.md and a nested leaf bundle.

The .md extension is just an example. The extension can be .html, .json or any valid MIME type. ↩︎ ↩︎

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Last updated: January 24, 2018