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slug: /api/plugins/@docusaurus/plugin-content-showcase
---

# 📦 plugin-content-showcase

import APITable from '@site/src/components/APITable';

Provides the Showcase feature and is the default blog plugin for Docusaurus.

## Installation {#installation}

```bash npm2yarn
npm install --save @docusaurus/plugin-content-showcase
```

:::tip

If you use the preset `@docusaurus/preset-classic`, you don't need to install this plugin as a dependency.

You can configure this plugin through the [preset options](../../using-plugins.mdx#docusauruspreset-classic).

:::

## Configuration {#configuration}

Accepted fields:

```mdx-code-block
<APITable>
```

| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `path` | `string` | `'showcase'` | Path to the blog content directory on the file system, relative to site dir. |
| `routeBasePath` | `string` | `'/showcase'` | URL route for the blog section of your site. **DO NOT** include a trailing slash. Use `/` to put the blog at root path. |
| `include` | `string[]` | `['**/*.{yml,yaml}']` | Array of glob patterns matching Markdown files to be built, relative to the content path. |
| `exclude` | `string[]` | _See example configuration_ | Array of glob patterns matching Markdown files to be excluded. Serves as refinement based on the `include` option. |
| `tags` | `string \| [TagOption](#TagsOption)` | `string` |  |

```mdx-code-block
</APITable>
```

### Types {#types}

#### `TagsOption` {#TagsOption}

```ts
type Tag = {
  label: string;
  description: {
    message: string;
    id: string;
  };
  color: string;
};

type TagsOption = {
  [key: string]: Tag;
};
```

### Example configuration {#ex-config}

You can configure this plugin through preset options or plugin options.

:::tip

Most Docusaurus users configure this plugin through the preset options.

:::

```js config-tabs
// Preset Options: blog
// Plugin Options: @docusaurus/plugin-content-showcase

const config = {
  path: 'showcase',
  routeBasePath: 'showcase',
  include: ['**/*.{yml,yaml}'],
  exclude: [
    '**/_*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx,md,mdx}',
    '**/_*/**',
    '**/*.test.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}',
    '**/__tests__/**',
  ],
  // tags: 'tags.yml'
  // or
  tags: {
    hello: {
      label: 'Hello',
      description: {
        message: 'Hello',
        id: 'Hello',
      },
      color: '#FF0000',
    },
    docusaurus: {
      label: 'Docusaurus',
      description: {
        message: 'Docusaurus',
        id: 'Docusaurus',
      },
      color: '#00FF00',
    },
  },
};
```

## Markdown front matter {#markdown-front-matter}

Markdown documents can use the following Markdown [front matter](../../guides/markdown-features/markdown-features-intro.mdx#front-matter) metadata fields, enclosed by a line `---` on either side.

Accepted fields:

```mdx-code-block
<APITable>


```

| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `title` | `string` | `undefined` | Title of the showcase item. |
| `description` | `string` | `undefined` | Description on the showcase item. |
| `preview` | `string \| null` | `undefined` | Image preview of the showcase item, either an url or link to a file |
| `website` | `string` | `undefined` |  |
| `source` | `string \| null` | `undefined` | Link of the showcase item's source code |
| `tags` | `string[]` | `undefined` | ⚠️ Prefer using `authors`. A description of the author. |

```mdx-code-block
</APITable>
```

Example:

```md
---
title: Dyte
description: The most developer friendly live video SDK
preview: ./showcase/dyte.png
website: https://docs.dyte.io
source: https://github.com/dyte-in/docs
tags:
  - favorite
  - product
  - design
  - versioning
  - large
  - opensource
---

A Markdown blog post
```

## i18n {#i18n}

Read the [i18n introduction](../../i18n/i18n-introduction.mdx) first.

### Translation files location {#translation-files-location}

- **Base path**: `website/i18n/[locale]/docusaurus-plugin-content-showcase`
- **Multi-instance path**: `website/i18n/[locale]/docusaurus-plugin-content-showcase-[pluginId]`
- **JSON files**: extracted with [`docusaurus write-translations`](../../cli.mdx#docusaurus-write-translations-sitedir)
- **Markdown files**: `website/i18n/[locale]/docusaurus-plugin-content-showcase`

### Example file-system structure {#example-file-system-structure}

```bash
website/i18n/[locale]/docusaurus-plugin-content-showcase
│
│ # translations for website/blog
├── authors.yml
├── first-blog-post.md
├── second-blog-post.md
│
│ # translations for the plugin options that will be rendered
└── options.json
```