primarySite Twig global variable

[jamesmacwhite]

Similar to the currentSite variable, but returning the primarySite model instead.

My reason for suggesting, if I wanted to use the primary site properties e.g. base URL in another site, I currently would need to do a query with craft.app.sites, or use the siteUrl function but the params are little awkward e.g. to get the homepage of the primary site siteUrl('', null, null, 1), with 1 being the ID of primary site.

A syntax of:

{{ primarySite.name }}
{{ primarySite.baseUrl }}

Would be cleaner.

[mmikkel]

You can get the primary site via craft.app.sites.primarySite, but I'd still +1 this – needing to refer to the primary site in multi-site builds is pretty common, so having a global primarySite variable/shortcut would be a nice convenience feature.

@jamesmacwhite That siteUrl() example is a perfect use case for named arguments in Twig 😉:

{{ siteUrl(siteId=1) }}

Or, if you want to avoid hard coding the ID:

{{ siteUrl(siteId=craft.app.sites.primarySite.id) }}

It would be cool to be able to do things like this though:

{{ siteUrl('login', siteId=primarySite.id) }}

[jamesmacwhite]

@mmikkel Thanks! I've learnt something new with named arguments today with Twig, to make siteUrl usage a bit cleaner for sure!

[brandonkelly]

Added for Craft 4.14 and 5.6! (92cdb09)

[jamesmacwhite]

Short syntax rejoice! Thanks Brandon!