Front Matter

The front matter is one of the features that gives Hugo its strength. It enables you to include the meta data of the content right with it. Hugo supports a few different formats, each with their own identifying tokens.

Supported formats:

• TOML, identified by ‘+++’.
• YAML, identified by ‘---’.
• JSON, a single JSON object which is surrounded by ‘{’ and ‘}’, each on their own line.

TOML Example

+++
title = "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website"
description = "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim."
tags = [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ]
date = "2012-04-06"
categories = [
  "Development",
  "VIM"
]
slug = "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website"
+++
Content of the file goes Here

YAML Example

---
title: "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website"
description: "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim."
tags: [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ]
lastmod: 2015-12-23
date: "2012-04-06"
categories:
  - "Development"
  - "VIM"
slug: "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website"
---

Content of the file goes Here

JSON Example

{
    "title": "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website",
    "description": "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim.",
    "tags": [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ],
    "date": "2012-04-06",
    "categories": [
        "Development",
        "VIM"
    ],
    "slug": "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website"
}

Content of the file goes Here

Variables

There are a few predefined variables that Hugo is aware of and utilizes. The user can also create any variable they want. These will be placed into the .Params variable available to the templates. Field names are always normalized to lowercase (e.g. camelCase: true is available as .Params.camelcase).

Required variables

• title The title for the content
• description The description for the content
• date The date the content will be sorted by
• taxonomies These will use the field name of the plural form of the index (see tags and categories above)

Optional variables

• aliases An array of one or more aliases (e.g. old published path of a renamed content) that would be created to redirect to this content. See Aliases for details.
• draft If true, the content will not be rendered unless hugo is called with --buildDrafts
• publishdate If in the future, content will not be rendered unless hugo is called with --buildFuture
• expirydate Content already expired will not be rendered unless hugo is called with --buildExpired
• type The type of the content (will be derived from the directory automatically if unset)
• isCJKLanguage If true, explicitly treat the content as CJKLanguage (.Summary and .WordCount can work properly in CJKLanguage)
• weight Used for sorting
• markup (Experimental) Specify "rst" for reStructuredText (requires rst2html) or "md" (default) for Markdown
• slug appears as tail of the url. It can be used to change the part of the url that is based on the filename.
• url The full path to the content from the web root. It makes no assumptions about the path of the content file. It also ignores any language prefixes of the multilingual feature.

If neither slug or url is present, the filename will be used.

Configure Blackfriday rendering

It’s possible to set some options for Markdown rendering in the page’s front matter as an override to the site wide configuration.

See Configuration for more.