Display a content item’s data

The fields, title and dates of a content item appear on your pages without being retyped. This article teaches you to place a field with its block and to write a data value in the middle of a text. It also shows how to link a text to the content item and mark a date for search engines.

Choose the block or the Data format

Two tools display what a content item holds. They read the same value: fix it in the content item and it changes everywhere it is displayed.

The editor offers the fields of the content item that the place where you put the data refers to. The section Understand the fields offered details each place. The title, excerpt, author and dates are offered everywhere.

Understand the fields offered

A data value displays the value of the content item that the place where it sits refers to. On a content item’s page, it is that content item. In a list card, it is the card’s content item. The inserter, the block’s Which field list and the Value list of the Data format therefore offer the fields of that content item.

The closest block decides. A list placed in the template of another type offers the fields of the type it displays.

When several types are offered, the inserter writes each field’s type in parentheses, for example Area (Projects). A field that several types declare appears once, with the name of each. The Which field and Value lists file the fields under the name of their type.

Place a field with its block

1. Open in the editor the content item, page or template that must display the field.
2. Select a block where the field goes, for example a block of a list card.
3. Open the inserter and search for the field name, for example Area. The fields of this place appear there under their label. Add a block explains how to insert a block.
4. Insert the block. In the Settings tab of the sidebar, Field panel, set how it displays.

The block is formatted like the others: colors, typography, size, borders, effects, saved styles and animations.

The text before and after the value belongs to the block. A translated page, which is a separate content item, therefore has its own texts.

In a content item’s editor, the block shows the value that content item holds. While the field is empty, it shows the field name, so your layout stays readable. In a list card, in a template and in a Post navigation, it shows the field name: this model serves several content items, each with its value.

Display a Media field

A Media field holds an image or a video. The block shows it on the site and in the content item’s editor. It then carries the Video settings panel, which only matters if the field holds a video: an image displays as it is.

The setting belongs to the block: the same video can start on hover in a card and from its player on the content item’s page. The Follows the scroll mode of the Media block is not offered here.

Write a data value in a text

1. Place the cursor in a paragraph or a heading, where the data value goes.
2. In the block toolbar, open the text formats and click Data. A chip is placed and the Data panel opens in the sidebar.
3. In Value, choose the data.
4. Optional: choose its format in Shown as and a text in Before the value or After the value.

A date displays in the Short, Long or Relative format. Short is the default format. It follows the page’s language: the long format writes “21 juin 2026” on a French page and “June 21, 2026” on an English page. A field offers the formats of its type.

The text before and after the value only displays if the value displays. A content item with no excerpt displays neither.

In the editor, the chip shows the name of the data and not its value. The same text can thus serve all the content items of a list, each with its value. On the site, each content item displays its own.

In a list, the card you are editing keeps the names. The other cards of the preview show the values of their content item, format and text included. Click another card to edit it in turn.

Format a data value

Select the chip and apply a text style, a link or a language to it, as to words. The chip’s panel also has its Styles tab: colors, typography and saved styles. The formatting applies to the value displayed on the site.

Link a text to the content item

In a list card, a text or a button can lead to the card’s content item. The title of a new card already leads there.

1. Select the text and apply a link, or open a block’s Link panel, like a “Read more” button.
2. Click in the empty link field. Link to the item is the first suggestion, marked Card.
3. Choose it. Each card leads to its own content item.

Outside a card, Link to the item is not offered. Such a link always opens like a page, never in an overlay window.

If the content item’s type has no page, the link disappears: its words stay and a button keeps its look. A heading that displays a data value has no anchor: the table of contents and the breadcrumb leave it out.

Mark a date written in a text

You write “July 7” and want search engines to know which day it is.

1. Select the words of the date.
2. Click Data. Your words stay and the panel opens on A date written in the text.
3. In Day, choose the day.

A visitor reads your words, a search engine reads the day. As long as you keep the text written for the chosen day, it changes with the day. As soon as you edit it, it stays yours.

In the editor, a written date is recognized by its dotted underline. On the site, nothing sets it apart. It is formatted like a data value and receives an anchor in the Advanced panel.

Understand how an empty value displays

A content item just created from a template often has empty fields. On the site, an empty data value displays nothing: no value, no empty block, no text before or after. “Area:” does not stay alone.

Zero and No are values and display: a price of 0, “Furnished: No”.

See also

• Add fields to a type
• List and filter your content
• Start from a content model
• Choose the look with templates