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diff --git a/examples/hakyll/tutorials/part07.markdown b/examples/hakyll/tutorials/part07.markdown index e5a385c..539dbea 100644 --- a/examples/hakyll/tutorials/part07.markdown +++ b/examples/hakyll/tutorials/part07.markdown @@ -78,3 +78,18 @@ The benefit of this is simply prettier URL's. That is, if you consider - Auto-compilation is handy, but a rebuild is recommended before deploying your site. - You can enable pretty URL's in Hakyll. It is, however, not the default. + +## Default values + +At some point, you might want to use a number of global key-value pairs, for +example, `$author`. There are two possible ways to achieve this. + +- There is an option in `HakyllConfiguration` supporting this, called + `additionalContext`. For an example on how to use `HakyllConfiguration`, see + the pretty URL's section above. + +- Another option is to use a `defaults.markdown` file, simply containing some + metadata, and then `combine` this file with other pages. The advantage is + that autocompilation mode will pick up changes in this file[^1]. + +[^1]: Original idea by zenzike. |