Template filters

In addition to the built-in template filters provided by Mako or Jinja2 respectively, the following filters are by default made available in templates:

• date: date formatting using strftime. By default, the format '%c' is used. A different format is specified using the fmt parameter, e.g.: ${ page.pubdate | date(fmt=site.date_format) }.

• date_to_iso: Format a datetime as ISO 8601 (or similarly, depending on parameters). The parameters are sep (the separator between the date part and the time part; by default 'T', but a space is sensible as well); upto (by default 'sec', but 'day', 'hour' and 'frac' are also acceptable values); and with_tz (by default False).

• date_to_rfc822: Format a datetime as RFC 822 (a common datetime format in email headers and some types of XML documents).

• date_short: E.g. "7 Nov 2022".

• date_short_us: E.g. "Nov 7th, 2022".

• date_long: E.g. "7 November 2022".

• date_long_us: E.g. "November 7th, 2022".

• slugify: Turns a string into a slug. Only works for strings in the Latin alphabet.

• markdownify: Convert markdown to HTML. It is possible to specify custom extensions using the extensions argument.

• truncate: Convert markdown/html to plaintext and return the first length characters (default: 200), with an ellipsis (default: "…") appended if any shortening has taken place.

• truncate_words: Convert markdown/html to plaintext and return the first length words (default: 25), with an ellipsis (default "…") appended if any shortening has taken place.

• p_unwrap: Remove a wrapping <p> tag if and only if there is only one paragraph of text. Suitable for short pieces of text to which a markdownify filter has previously been applied. Example: <h1>${ page.title | markdownify,p_unwrap }</h1>.

• strip_html: Remove any markdown/html markup from the text. Paragraphs will not be preserved.

• cleanurl: Remove trailing 'index.html' from URLs.

• url: Unless the given path already starts with '/', '.' or 'http', prefix it with the first defined leading path of site.leading_path, site.base_url or a literal /. Postfix a / unless the path already has one or seems to end with a file extension. Calls cleanurl on the result.

• to_json: converts the given data structure to JSON. Note that this should not normally be used as a string filter (i.e. ${ value | to_json }) but directly as a function, like this: ${ to_json(value) }.

• fingerprint: Replace an unadorned path to an assets file with its fingerprinted (i.e. versioned) equivalent. Example: ${ 'js/site.js' | url, fingerprint }. Uses the corresponding entry from the ASSETS_MAP context variable if it is available but otherwise proceeds to do the fingerprinting itself.

If you wish to provide additional filters in Mako without having to explicitly define or import them in templates, the best way of doing this his to add them via the mako_imports setting in wmk_config.yaml (see above). There is currently no easy way to do this if Jinja2 templates are being used, however.

Please note that in order to avoid conflicts with the above filters you should not place a file named wmk_mako_filters.py or wmk_jinja2_extras.py in your py/ directories.