Configuration

juicercafe reads its configuration from three places:

• A small set of top-level site keys (the same ones every juicer theme uses, plus a few café-specific ones for hours / visit info).
• A namespaced [juicercafe] table for theme-specific palette + sizing overrides.
• Per-page frontmatter for menus, events, photo albums, and the “working on it” page.

Quick example

A minimal site.toml that produces a credible café page:

title    = "Magpie & Pearl"
tagline  = "Coffee, pastry, books — Lawrence Park."
author   = "Magpie & Pearl"
baseURL  = "https://example.com"
theme    = "juicercafe"

[visit]
address = "240 King St E"
city    = "Lawrence Park"
state   = "ON"
zip     = "M4S 1A1"
mapURL  = "https://maps.example.com/magpie"

[[hours]]
day  = "Mon"
open = "07:00"
close = "16:00"

[[hours]]
day  = "Tue"
open = "07:00"
close = "16:00"

# ... (Wed–Fri similar)# ... (Wed–Fri similar)

[[hours]]
day    = "Sat"
open   = "08:00"
close  = "17:00"

[[hours]]
day    = "Sun"
closed = true

[juicercafe]
brand     = "#9c3022"   # brick red# brick red
fontSerif = "'Source Serif 4', Georgia, serif"

A typical menu section page (content/menu/coffee.md):

---
title: Coffee
layout: menu-section
weight: 10
items:
  - { name: "Pour-over", price: "5.00", description: "Single-origin, brewed to order." }
  - { name: "Espresso", price: "3.50", description: "Double shot, in a small cup." }
  - { name: "Cortado", price: "4.50" }
---

A typical event page (content/events/picnic-may.md):

---
title: Spring Picnic
date: 2025-05-15T12:00:00
eventTime: "noon–4pm"
eventLocation: "Lawrence Park bandshell"
summary: Annual neighborhood picnic. Bring a side.
---

The full event writeup goes here.

Top-level keys

Standard juicer keys plus a few café-specific ones.

Hours-row shape

Each [[hours]] row describes one day of the week:

Palette + token overrides — [juicercafe]

All optional. Anything you don’t set keeps the warm-paper / brick-red defaults. The full mapping (which token drives which CSS variable) is documented in Theming — juicercafe follows the same pattern as the other themes.

Per-page frontmatter

Menu pages

The menu has a two-level structure: a [layout: menu] page on /menu/_index.md and one [layout: menu-section] page per menu section (/menu/coffee.md, /menu/pastry.md, …). Each menu-section page lists its items inline.

Event pages

Event pages live in the eventsSection (default events).

Photo album pages

A [layout: album] page renders a 3-up image grid; a [layout: photo-album] page renders the site-wide aggregated .site.photos list. Use the first for one event’s gallery, the second for “every photo on the site, sorted by date.”

“Working on it” pages

A [layout: working] page lists pending projects — lease applications, renovations, hiring. Each page’s working: frontmatter is a list.

Going beyond config

Drop a file with the same path under your own site to override anything in the theme — this is the ordinary theme overlay pattern:

Site files always win over theme files, so overrides are a one-file-at-a-time operation — no forking the theme.

SEO

Every juicer theme ships a shared SEO partial (partials/seo.html) that emits the standard meta block: description (with site-level fallback), canonical link, author meta, robots noindex, OpenGraph + Twitter cards (via the ogTags builtin), Atom feed discovery, and theme-specific JSON-LD. The engine separately writes sitemap.xml and robots.txt.

Site-wide keys

description = "Hand-pulled espresso and tiny-batch pastries on Elgin Street."
ogImage     = "/og/default.jpg"

robots   = true
noindex  = false
disallow = ["/private/"]

# Optional: LocalBusiness JSON-LD on the homepage. Any subtype works# Optional: LocalBusiness JSON-LD on the homepage. Any subtype works
# (CafeOrCoffeeShop, Restaurant, Bakery — see schema.org/LocalBusiness).# (CafeOrCoffeeShop, Restaurant, Bakery — see schema.org/LocalBusiness).
[business]
type    = "CafeOrCoffeeShop"
phone   = "+1-555-0100"
address = "123 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4"
image   = "/img/storefront.jpg"

Per-page frontmatter

---
title: Espresso 101
summary: A one-sentence dek for search results and OG cards.
image: /img/menu/espresso.jpg
ogImage: /img/menu/espresso-social.jpg
ogTitle: Espresso, explained
ogDescription: Tightened for socials
noindex: true   # excluded from sitemap, JSON-LD suppressed, <meta robots> emitted
---

Structured data emitted

noindex: true suppresses ALL JSON-LD on that page.

Overriding the SEO partial

Drop a file at <src>/partials/seo.html (or seo-jsonld.html for just the structured-data part). Site overrides win over the theme’s copy.