Templates
Go templating, template types and lookup order, shortcodes, and data.
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Introduction to Hugo Templating
Hugo uses Go’s
html/template
and text/template
libraries as the basis for the templating.
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Hugo's Lookup Order
Hugo searches for the layout to use for a given page in a well defined order, starting from the most specific.
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Custom Output Formats
Hugo can output content in multiple formats, including calendar events, e-book formats, Google AMP, and JSON search indexes, or any custom text format.
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Base Templates and Blocks
The base and block constructs allow you to define the outer shell of your master templates (i.e., the chrome of the page).
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Lists of Content in Hugo
Lists have a specific meaning and usage in Hugo when it comes to rendering your site homepage, section page, taxonomy list, or taxonomy terms list.
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Homepage Template
The homepage of a website is often formatted differently than the other pages. For this reason, Hugo makes it easy for you to define your new site’s homepage as a unique template.
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Section Page Templates
Templates used for section pages are lists and therefore have all the variables and methods available to list pages.
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Taxonomy Templates
Taxonomy templating includes taxonomy list pages, taxonomy terms pages, and using taxonomies in your single page templates.
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Single Page Templates
The primary view of content in Hugo is the single view. Hugo will render every Markdown file provided with a corresponding single template.
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Content View Templates
Hugo can render alternative views of your content, which is especially useful in list and summary views.
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Data Templates
In addition to Hugo’s built-in variables, you can specify your own custom data in templates or shortcodes that pull from both local and dynamic sources.
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Partial Templates
Partials are smaller, context-aware components in your list and page templates that can be used economically to keep your templating DRY.
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Create Your Own Shortcodes
You can extend Hugo’s built-in shortcodes by creating your own using the same templating syntax as that for single and list pages.
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Local File Templates
Hugo’s
readDir
and readFile
functions make it easy to traverse your project’s directory structure and write file contents to your templates.
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Custom 404 Page
If you know how to create a single page template, you have unlimited options for creating a custom 404.
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Menu Templates
Menus are a powerful but simple feature for content management but can be easily manipulated in your templates to meet your design needs.
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Pagination
Hugo supports pagination for your homepage, section pages, and taxonomies.
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RSS Templates
Hugo ships with its own RSS 2.0 template that requires almost no configuration, or you can create your own RSS templates.
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Sitemap Template
Hugo ships with a built-in template file observing the v0.9 of the Sitemap Protocol, but you can override this template if needed.
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Robots.txt File
Hugo can generate a customized robots.txt in the same way as any other template.
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Internal Templates
Hugo ships with a group of boilerplate templates that cover the most common use cases for static websites.
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DEPRECATED - Alternative Templating Languages
DEPRECATED - Support for Ace & Amber templating has been removed in version 0.62
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Template Debugging
You can use Go templates'
printf
function to debug your Hugo templates. These snippets provide a quick and easy visualization of the variables available to you in different contexts.
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