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title: Single Page Templates
description: The primary view of content in Hugo is the single view. Hugo will render every Markdown file provided with a corresponding single template.
categories: [templates]
keywords: [page, templates]
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## Single Page Template Lookup Order

See [Template Lookup](/templates/lookup-order/).

## Example Single Page Templates

Content pages are of the type `page` and will therefore have all the [page variables][pagevars] and [site variables] available to use in their templates.

### `posts/single.html`

This single page template makes use of Hugo [base templates], the [`.Format` function] for dates, the [`.WordCount` page variable][pagevars], and ranges through the single content's specific [taxonomies][pagetaxonomy]. [`with`] is also used to check whether the taxonomies are set in the front matter.

{{< code file="layouts/posts/single.html" >}}
{{ define "main" }}

<section id="main">
  <h1 id="title">{{ .Title }}</h1>
  <div>
    <article id="content">
      {{ .Content }}
    </article>
  </div>
</section>
<aside id="meta">
  <div>
  <section>
    <h4 id="date"> {{ .Date.Format "Mon Jan 2, 2006" }} </h4>
    <h5 id="wordcount"> {{ .WordCount }} Words </h5>
  </section>
    {{ with .GetTerms "topics" }}
      <ul id="topics">
        {{ range . }}
          <li><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .LinkTitle }}</a></li>
        {{ end }}
      </ul>
    {{ end }}
    {{ with .GetTerms "tags" }}
      <ul id="tags">
        {{ range . }}
          <li><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .LinkTitle }}</a></li>
        {{ end }}
      </ul>
    {{ end }}
  </div>
  <div>
    {{ with .PrevInSection }}
      <a class="previous" href="{{ .Permalink }}"> {{ .Title }}</a>
    {{ end }}
    {{ with .NextInSection }}
      <a class="next" href="{{ .Permalink }}"> {{ .Title }}</a>
    {{ end }}
  </div>
</aside>
{{ end }}
{{< /code >}}

To easily generate new instances of a content type (e.g., new `.md` files in a section like `project/`) with preconfigured front matter, use [content archetypes][archetypes].

[archetypes]: /content-management/archetypes/
[base templates]: /templates/base/
[config]: /getting-started/configuration/
[content type]: /content-management/types/
[directory structure]: /getting-started/directory-structure/
[dry]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself
[`.format` function]: /functions/format/
[front matter]: /content-management/front-matter/
[pagetaxonomy]: /templates/taxonomy-templates/#display-a-single-piece-of-contents-taxonomies
[pagevars]: /variables/page/
[partials]: /templates/partials/
[section]: /content-management/sections/
[site variables]: /variables/site/
[spf13]: https://spf13.com/
[`with`]: /functions/with/
