0731 | Hugo front matter

Nov 11, 2020
hugo front matter shortcode

terminal

A simple, retro theme for Hugo.

    Author: panr
    Minimum Hugo Version: 0.74
    Updated: 2020-11-01
    License: MIT
    Tags: blog clean customizable dark highlighting minimal monotone multilingual personal responsive simple technical retro

title

date

Either yyyy-mm-dd or yy-mm-ddThh-mm-ss can be used. Others may be available. A trailing Z causes the page not to be generated.

Any error in date will mean the page is not generated with no warning at all.

At the moment, posts are displayed in reverse date time order, so these might have to be invented until, say, title can be used.

an article about the date time format and why it is used

Hugo date time format

Hugo doc on date

author

authorTwitter

No sign of this in the post

cover

names of pictures in the static folder can be used here

keywords

Keywords are not appearing anywhere.

description

showFullContent

draft

No draft parameter in the default front matter. It may be available but need to re-read the terminal theme documentation.

shortcode testparam

hugo shortcodes are available in addition to those from the terminal theme

Here is the testparam parameter for this document’s front matter

a non-standard parameter added to the front matter referenced below as a shortcode

Documentation from the hugo shortcode page

param

Gets a value from the current Page's params set in front matter, with a fall back to the site param value. 

**It will log an ERROR if the param with the given key could not be found in either.**

a non-standard parameter added to the front matter referenced below as a shortcode

Since testparam is a param defined in front matter of this page with the value Hugo Rocks!, the above will print:

Hugo Rocks!

To access *deeply nested params*, use “dot syntax”, e.g:

\{\{< param "my.nested.param" >\}\}

how and where are hugo errors logged?

Hugo support forum

Hugo Support Forum