Template Variables
Hugo makes a set of values available to the templates. Go templates are context based. The following are available in the context for the templates.
Page Variables
The following is a list of most of the accessible variables which can be defined for a piece of content. Many of these will be defined in the front matter, content or derived from file location.
See also: Scratch for page-scoped writable variables.
.Title The title for the content.
.Content The content itself, defined below the front matter.
.Summary A generated summary of the content for easily showing a snippet in a summary view. Note that the breakpoint can be set manually by inserting <!--more--> at the appropriate place in the content page. See Summaries for more details.
.Truncated A boolean, true if the .Summary is truncated. Useful for showing a “Read more…” link only if necessary. See Summaries for more details.
.Description The description for the content.
.Keywords The meta keywords for this content.
.Date The date the content is associated with.
.PublishDate The date the content is published on.
.Type The content type (e.g. post).
.Section The section this content belongs to.
.Permalink The Permanent link for this page.
.RelPermalink The Relative permanent link for this page.
.LinkTitle Access when creating links to this content. Will use linktitle if set in front matter, else title.
.RSSLink Link to the taxonomies’ RSS link.
.TableOfContents The rendered table of contents for this content.
.Prev Pointer to the previous content (based on pub date).
.Next Pointer to the following content (based on pub date).
.PrevInSection Pointer to the previous content within the same section (based on pub date)
.NextInSection Pointer to the following content within the same section (based on pub date)
.FuzzyWordCount The approximate number of words in the content.
.WordCount The number of words in the content.
.ReadingTime The estimated time it takes to read the content in minutes.
.Weight Assigned weight (in the front matter) to this content, used in sorting.
.RawContent Raw Markdown content without the metadata header. Useful with remarkjs.com
.Draft A boolean, true if the content is marked as a draft in the front matter.
.IsNode Always false for pages.
.IsPage Always true for page.
.Site See Site Variables below.
.Hugo See Hugo Variables below.
Page Params
Any other value defined in the front matter, including taxonomies, will be made available under .Params.
For example, the tags and categories taxonomies are accessed with:
- .Params.tags
- .Params.categories
All Params are only accessible using all lowercase characters.
This is particularly useful for the introduction of user defined fields in content files. For example, a Hugo website on book reviews could have in the front matter of /content/review/book01.md
---
...
affiliatelink: "http://www.my-book-link.here"
recommendedby: "my Mother"
---
Which would then be accessible to a template at /themes/yourtheme/layouts/review/single.html through .Params.affiliatelink and .Params.recommendedby, respectively. Two common situations where these could be introduced are as a value of a certain attribute (like href="" below) or by itself to be displayed. Sample syntaxes include:
<h3><a href={{ printf "%s" $.Params.affiliatelink }}>Buy this book</a></h3>
<p>It was recommended by {{ .Params.recommendedby }}.</p>
which would render
<h3><a href="http://www.my-book-link.here">Buy this book</a></h3>
<p>It was recommended by my Mother.</p>
See also: Archetypes for consistency of Params across pieces of content.
Param method
In Hugo you can declare params both for the site and the individual page. A common use case is to have a general value for the site and a more specific value for some of the pages (i.e. an image).
With the Param method the most specific value will be selected for you, and it is safe to use it in any template (it’s defined on both Page and Node):
$.Param("image")
Node Variables
In Hugo, a node is any page not rendered directly by a content file. This includes taxonomies, lists and the homepage.
See also: Scratch for global node variables.
.Title The title for the content.
.Date The date the content is published on.
.Permalink The Permanent link for this node
.URL The relative URL for this node.
.Ref(ref) Returns the permalink for ref. See cross-references. Does not handle in-page fragments correctly.
.RelRef(ref) Returns the relative permalink for ref. See cross-references. Does not handle in-page fragments correctly.
.RSSLink Link to the taxonomies’ RSS link.
.Data The data specific to this type of node.
.IsHome True if the node is the site home page.
.IsNode Always true for nodes.
.IsPage Always false for nodes.
.Site See Site Variables below.
.Hugo See Hugo Variables below.
Taxonomy Term Variables
Taxonomy Terms pages are of the type “node” and have the following additional variables.
.Data.Singular The singular name of the taxonomy
.Data.Plural The plural name of the taxonomy
.Data.Pages the list of pages in this taxonomy
.Data.Terms The taxonomy itself
.Data.Terms.Alphabetical The Terms alphabetized
.Data.Terms.ByCount The Terms ordered by popularity
The last two can also be reversed: .Data.Terms.Alphabetical.Reverse, .Data.Terms.ByCount.Reverse.
Site Variables
Also available is .Site which has the following:
.Site.BaseURL The base URL for the site as defined in the site configuration file.
.Site.RSSLink The URL for the site RSS.
.Site.Taxonomies The taxonomies for the entire site. Replaces the now-obsolete .Site.Indexes since v0.11.
.Site.Pages Array of all content ordered by Date, newest first. Replaces the now-deprecated .Site.Recent starting v0.13.
.Site.Params A container holding the values from the params section of your site configuration file. For example, a TOML config file might look like this:
baseurl = "http://yoursite.example.com/"
[params]
description = "Tesla's Awesome Hugo Site"
author = "Nikola Tesla"
.Site.Sections Top level directories of the site.
.Site.Files All of the source files of the site.
.Site.Menus All of the menus in the site.
.Site.Title A string representing the title of the site.
.Site.Author A map of the authors as defined in the site configuration.
.Site.LanguageCode A string representing the language as defined in the site configuration.
.Site.DisqusShortname A string representing the shortname of the Disqus shortcode as defined in the site configuration.
.Site.GoogleAnalytics A string representing your tracking code for Google Analytics as defined in the site configuration.
.Site.Copyright A string representing the copyright of your web site as defined in the site configuration.
.Site.LastChange A string representing the date/time of the most recent change to your site, based on the date variable in the front matter of your content pages.
.Site.Permalinks A string to override the default permalink format. Defined in the site configuration.
.Site.BuildDrafts A boolean (Default: false) to indicate whether to build drafts. Defined in the site configuration.
.Site.Data Custom data, see Data Files.
Hugo Variables
Also available is .Hugo which has the following:
.Hugo.Generator Meta tag for the version of Hugo that generated the site. Highly recommended to be included by default in all theme headers so we can start to track Hugo usage and popularity. e.g. <meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.13" />
.Hugo.Version The current version of the Hugo binary you are using e.g. 0.13-DEV
.Hugo.CommitHash The git commit hash of the current Hugo binary e.g. 0e8bed9ccffba0df554728b46c5bbf6d78ae5247
.Hugo.BuildDate The compile date of the current Hugo binary formatted with RFC 3339 e.g. 2002-10-02T10:00:00-05:00