Show frontmatter as fields in the normal mode?

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Hi :slight_smile:

I have pages with a various custom variables in the frontmatter, in fact a lot of content snippets that appear on the pages are stored in the frontmatter. It works great.

However, the only way to edit them from the admin panel is through the Expert mode, and only as the raw frontmatter code.

I would absolutely love a way to show all my frontmatter variables used on a page as fields in the admin panel when using the Normal mode. Is there a way to do this? A plug-in maybe?

If not I believe this would be a great improvement on Grav, to enable editors or clients to change content and options there without getting into code syntax. Maybe it could be a tab between “Content” and “Options”.

Let me know, thanks :slight_smile:

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I realise this sounds like blueprints, and it’s basically that, but automatically and for all frontmatter variables. Most of my pages have different templates and a bunch of variables that are unique to them, and I’d rather not manually create a blueprint for each of them. Maybe that could be an “auto” keyword mode for blueprints?

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Currently, there’s no built-in way to display frontmatter variables as fields in Normal mode. A plugin might help, or you could suggest this feature for future Grav updates to simplify content editing.