Basildon supports bulk writing of metadata into Markdown frontmatter.
All the metadata from content files is read into an SQLite database when a site is built,
and this database can be opened in any other programme and edited.
After being saved to the database, the build command can be run to update the content/ directory files.
The whole workflow should be something like:
- Make sure your site is under version control, and has no outstanding changes (to make it easier to track changes that will be made by Basildon).
- Build your site:
./vendor/bin/basildon build . - Edit the database at
./cache/database/db.sqlite3using a programme such as DB Browser for SQLite, and write the changes back to the same file. - Run
./vendor/bin/basildon write . - Check the changes before committing them.