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title: "Variables"
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date: "2013-07-01"
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aliases: ["/doc/variables/"]
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groups: ["layout"]
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groups_weight: 20
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---
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Hugo makes a set of values available to the templates. Go templates are context based. The following
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are available in the context for the templates.
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## Page Variables
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The following is a list of most of the accessible variables which can be
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defined for a piece of content. Many of these will be defined in the front
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matter, content or derived from file location.
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**.Title** The title for the content.<br>
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**.Content** The content itself, defined below the front matter.<br>
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**.Summary** A generated summary of the content for easily showing a snippet in a summary view.<br>
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**.Description** The description for the content.<br>
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**.Keywords** The meta keywords for this content.<br>
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**.Date** The date the content is published on.<br>
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**.Type** The content [type](/content/types/) (eg. post)<br>
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**.Section** The [section](/content/sections/) this content belongs to<br>
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**.Permalink** The Permanent link for this page.<br>
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**.RelPermalink** The Relative permanent link for this page.<br>
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**.LinkTitle** Access when creating links to this content. Will use linktitle if set in front-matter, else title<br>
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**.Indexes** These will use the field name of the plural form of the index (see tags and categories above)<br>
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**.RSSLink** Link to the indexes' rss link <br>
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**.TableOfContents** The rendered table of contents for this content<br>
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**.Prev** Pointer to the previous content (based on pub date)<br>
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**.Next** Pointer to the following content (based on pub date)<br>
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**.FuzzyWordCount** The approximate number of words in the content.<br>
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**.WordCount** The number of words in the content.<br>
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**.ReadingTime** The estimated time it takes to read the content in minutes.<br>
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**.Weight** Assigned weight (in the front matter) to this content, used in sorting.<br>
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**.Site** See site variables below<br>
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## Page Params
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Any other value defined in the front matter, including indexes will be made available under `.Params`.
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Take for example I'm using tags and categories as my indexes. The following would be how I would access them:
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**.Params.tags** <br>
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**.Params.categories** <br>
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<br>
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**All Params are only accessible using all lowercase characters**<br>
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## Node Variables
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In Hugo a node is any page not rendered directly by a content file. This
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includes indexes, lists and the homepage.
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**.Title** The title for the content.<br>
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**.Date** The date the content is published on.<br>
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**.Permalink** The Permanent link for this node<br>
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**.Url** The relative url for this node.<br>
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**.RSSLink** Link to the indexes' rss link <br>
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**.Data** The data specific to this type of node.<br>
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**.Site** See site variables below<br>
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## Site Variables
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Also available is `.Site` which has the following:
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**.Site.BaseUrl** The base URL for the site as defined in the config.json file.<br>
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**.Site.Indexes** The indexes for the entire site.<br>
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**.Site.LastChange** The date of the last change of the most recent content.<br>
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**.Site.Recent** Array of all content ordered by Date, newest first.<br>
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**.Site.Params** A container holding the values from `params` in your site configuration file.<br>
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