Journal, team and reviews

Journal posts, team members and reviews are Markdown files in their own folders. They don’t have pages of their own except the posts. Guides and reviews appear inside blocks.

Journal posts

Each post is a Markdown file in src/content/posts/. The file name becomes its address: choosing-a-homestay.md is published at /journal/choosing-a-homestay/. The Markdown below the front matter is the article.

---
title: "Choosing a homestay"
summary: "What a homestay offers, the questions worth asking before you book, and how to read reviews."
date: 2026-06-15
author: priya
image: post-choosing-a-homestay.jpg
imageAlt: "A loaf of fresh bread with an open crumb on a wooden board in warm light"
tags:
  - "Homestays"
  - "Planning"
readingMinutes: 4
featured: false
---

Write the article here, with ## headings, lists and links.

Field	Required	What it does
title	Yes	The post title.
summary	Yes	Up to 200 characters, for cards, the page header and search results.
date	Yes	The publish date, such as 2026-06-15. Newest posts come first.
author	No	The file name of a team member in src/content/team/, without .md.
image, imageAlt	Yes	The main photo and its description.
destination	No	The file name of a destination. The destination page lists its posts.
tags	No	A list of tags. The journal block can show only posts with one tag.
readingMinutes	No	The reading time. Leave it out and the cards work it out from the word count.
featured	No	true makes the post eligible for blocks set to featured: true. Default false.
draft	No	true keeps the post off the site. Default false.

The list of posts is the /journal/ page, built with the journal block. Your posts are also published as a feed at /journal/rss.xml.

Team

Each guide or host is a Markdown file in src/content/team/. They appear in the hosts block, on trip pages as “Your guides” (the guides of the trip’s destination), and as authors on journal posts.

---
name: "Tenzin Angchuk"
role: "Local guide"
base: "Leh, Ladakh, India"
image: "team-tenzin.jpg"
imageAlt: "Tenzin Angchuk smiling beside a line of prayer flags above a river valley"
languages:
  - "English"
  - "Ladakhi"
  - "Hindi"
since: 2017
bio: "Tenzin grew up in a village above the Indus and has guided the Markha Valley for eight seasons."
destinations:
  - ladakh
order: 3
---

Field	Required	What it does
name	Yes	The person’s name.
role	Yes	For example Local guide.
base	No	Where they live.
image	Yes	A portrait, as a file name.
imageAlt	No	A description of the photo.
languages	No	The languages they speak.
since	No	The year they joined.
bio	Yes	A short bio, up to 240 characters.
destinations	No	The destinations they guide in, as file names. A trip page shows the people who guide in its destination.
order	No	Lower numbers come first. Default 0.

Reviews

Each review is a Markdown file in src/content/reviews/. The file name doesn’t matter. The demo uses review-01.md, review-02.md and so on.

---
name: "Amara Okafor"
from: "Leeds, United Kingdom"
rating: 5
date: 2025-06-14
title: "Our guide made the Markha Valley feel personal"
text: "Tenzin met us at Leh airport with a clear plan and a flask of tea."
trip: markha-valley-trek
source: direct
featured: true
---

Field	Required	What it does
name	Yes	The reviewer’s name.
from	No	Their home town or country.
rating	Yes	A number from 1 to 5.
date	Yes	When they travelled.
title	No	A headline for the review.
text	Yes	The review.
trip	No	The file name of the trip it is about.
stay	No	The file name of the stay it is about.
source	No	direct (the default), google, tripadvisor or trustpilot. Shows a small label on the review.
featured	No	true shows the review first. Default false.

Reviews are shown by the reviews block. On a trip or stay page it shows that entry’s reviews, with the average score. Featured reviews come first, then the newest.

Only publish reviews from real guests, and the source you name should be where the review really appeared.