Direct Collection Lookups in Theme Templates

Rendering a page that pulls posts from several blogs, categories, and tags meant loading deep linked structures just to reach a handful of records, and on content-heavy pages that weight showed. Theme templates can now query a set of native relationships directly through the existing collection filter, so a template asks for exactly the posts it needs and nothing more. Pages built this way render faster and stay fast as the underlying content grows.

Query relationships from a template

The collection filter accepts field lookups for posts by blog, category, tag, or id, and categories by blog. Editorial ordering is preserved when looking up hand-picked ids, results come back in lean card-ready shapes, and sorting and limits work as you would expect. Existing custom-attribute lookups behave exactly as before, so current themes need no changes.

Fast and safe by default

Every native lookup respects the site's scoping, publication rules, and preview state automatically: live pages only see published posts, while previews include drafts. Limits are capped, identical lookups within a request are answered once, and a failed query renders as an empty list rather than an error, so a template mistake never takes a page down.