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HI @woodyrew, thanks for the awesome plugin. I have integrated in one o my projects. However one major problem I'm facing is rendering custom metadata in Handlebars partials.

Could you please help me out here?

Thanks

Hi @woodyrew, we were chatting in Slack about this, but I think it would be awesome to have support for yaml files built in as well.

As an aside, changing the name to metalsmith-data-files might be more appropriate.

I haven't looked too much into the code, but I think I may have seen that the JSON files are being named-spaced in a certain permalinking naming convention? I don't really think that would be necessary.

For both yaml and json here's an ideal use case that I was considering:

1. Add a single json, config file to the project
2. In the file specify each files as a key (index, about, contact-us)
3. Within each object, specify the data that should be merged onto that file object
4. Optionally allow for additional metadata to be placed within the object prefixed with a "_" - for example, "_path": "/some/path/:id". This would mimic a directory path to the file for example. Otherwise, it could be simply indexed by key.
5. Use the plugin above other plugins to take advantage of uses of metalsmith-permalinks, etc.

Thoughts?