Request: Custom Fields for Posts

I really see a need for Custom Fields as being an essential advanced feature for Micro.blog.

I’ve read a number of help posts here, which want to do things that currently require significant hacks or workarounds to achieve on micro.blog hosted websites.

Custom Field Examples:

  • Adding a featured image on a per-post basis
  • Linking to a video_embed without it needing to appear in the post
  • Defining Tags for a Post (rather than just categories)
  • Having an Attribution Field that the Theme can Utilise to give Credit to Others
  • Choosing a post style/theme that the template can use to change the appearance of a post
  • Affiliate Links
  • Adding Compatibility with Themes and Plugins built for Hugo but not micro.blog specifically

I would like to request support for custom fields which add front-matter to a micro.blog post. Ideally, this would be supported in external editors like MarsEdit as well.

I really like the secret-sauce that hosting on micro.blog brings. However, as I have been diving into the world of building a custom template for my website, I’m constantly running into areas where I want to do something, but it just is too ‘hacky’ to achieve currently on micro.blog.

I really like supporting micro.blog financially by hosting with them, as I believe in the concepts Manton is building around. I just hope micro.blog can enable more of Hugo’s templating abilities with the use of custom fields.