In my frontmatter I have an array of objects. I’d like to pass these to a shortcode that renders a “card list”. I am trying to pass the variable from the frontmatter, to the shortcode, but I’m facing errors. +++ windowTypes = [ { title="Awning Windows", img="/img/window-types/awning.svg", descripti…

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I actually use this method in my theme, except in this case not possible. I have a shortcode that produces a list of cards. Could be a list of anything tbh, but I need to pass that list into the shortcode because in this case I need to produce 3 separate lists on the page and use the shortcode 3 ti…

The way you’re trying to do it isn’t possible. But, you could use the param shortcode and pass it as the .Inner of another shortcode. For example: {{< CardList >}} {{< param windowTypes >}} {{< /CardList >}}

Ah, that’s a bit unfortunate. It’s something I think would be a very useful feature for passing arrays into short codes from markdown frontmatter. In the end I created a shortcode as a wrapper, and a CardListItem that is the card/list item. It does the job: {{< CardList title="" description="" >}}…

Pass variable from frontmatter to shortcode?

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Leo_Merkel March 16, 2019, 10:07pm 2

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