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Serum processes blog posts differently compared to other pages, so that posts have additional features such as tagging, list generation, etc.

Source files for blog posts should be saved under posts directory in your project directory. File name is not important to Serum, but it is recommended to name your files like below for pretty directory listings.

YYYY-MM-DD-<title-slug>.md

• YYYY — Four digits of the year. (e.g. 2016)
• MM — Two digits of the month, zero padded. (e.g. 05, 11)
• DD — Two digits of the date, zero padded. (e.g. 03, 27)

Providing Metadata

At the beginning of each post source file, you need to write the post header to define metadata of each post. The format of the header area can be found in Adding Pages to Your Website document. Currently there are three post metadata you can define:

• title (string, required)

  Defines the title of the blog post. This title will be displayed in the title bar of a web browser and post listings.

• date (date and time, required)

  Defines the date and time when the post is written. The accepted formats are YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss and YYYY-MM-DD.

• tags (comma-separated strings, optional)

  Defines one or more tags.

• template (string, optional)

  See Custom Templates.

Following is an example of a valid source markdown file. Note that Serum doesn’t care about spaces between a comma and tags.

---
title: About GenServer in Elixir
date: 2017-06-15 13:27:00
tags: elixir,otp, study , foo
---

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ...

If you want to leave a post untagged, just drop the tags: ... line.

---
title: About GenServer in Elixir
date: 2017-06-15 13:27:00
---

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ...