Objects

Objects are the data that you have to work with within your Live Editor theme.

Objects are containers for dynamic data that you’ll have to work with in your theme’s Liquid templates.

Sometimes the objects will have attributes for you to work with. You can access attributes with dot notation: 

{{ photo.url }}

And sometimes the objects will contain a simple value like a string or date, which you can filter or output directly: 

{{ page_title }}

There are 3 types of objects:

Global Objects

These objects are available within every template, no matter the context (e.g., page represents the current page, and you’ll always be on a page).

canonical_url
Canonical URL configured for the current page that the user is accessing.
now
Date object containing the current date and time.
page
The current page that the user is accessing.
page_description
Meta description of the current page that the user is accessing.
page_keywords
Meta keywords of the current page that the user is accessing.
page_robots
Shortcut for outputting robots directives for <meta name="robots"> HTML tag.
page_title
Title of the current page that the user is accessing.
site
The current site that the user is accessing.

Contextual Objects

These objects are available only within certain contexts (e.g., forloop is only available when you’re within a for loop block).

forloop
Used inside of a for loop block, provides data about the collection being looped over and the current iteration of the loop.
navigation
Used inside of a navigation template, provides data about the current navigation menu being referenced by the template.

Block Objects

While you’re authoring blocks within content templates, you’ll configure types of objects that will be available within the content templates’ displays. For example, you may configure a block called photo of type image, which has its own set of attributes for you to reference within your Liquid code.

audio
Audio file block for use within content template displays.
date
Date/time object for use within content template displays.
embed_url
Data about a media URL to embed within an <audio> or <video> tag.
file
File download block for use within content template displays.
image
Image object for use within content template displays.
link
Hyperlink object for use within content template displays.
text
Text object for use within content template displays.
video
Video object for use within content template displays.

Next steps

Continue your deep dive into Liquid with the Filters Reference.