**.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 <code><!--more--></code> at the appropriate place in the content page. See [Summaries](/content/summaries/) for more details.<br>
**.Truncated** A boolean, `true` if the `.Summary` is truncated. Useful for showing a "Read more..." link only if necessary. See [Summaries](/content/summaries/) for more details.<br>
**.PrevInSection** Pointer to the previous content within the same section (based on pub date). For example, `{{if .PrevInSection}}{{.PrevInSection.Permalink}}{{end}}`.<br>
**.Translations** A list of translated versions of the current page. See [Multilingual]({{< relref "content/multilingual.md" >}}) for more info. Note that the `Translation` variable is also available on node, e.g. home page etc. <br>
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 <code>/content/review/book01.md</code>
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:
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):
**.Ref(ref)** Returns the permalink for `ref`. See [cross-references]({{% ref "extras/crossreferences.md" %}}). Does not handle in-page fragments correctly.<br>
**.RelRef(ref)** Returns the relative permalink for `ref`. See [cross-references]({{% ref "extras/crossreferences.md" %}}). Does not handle in-page fragments correctly.<br>
**.Translations** A list of translated versions of the current node. All nodes (except the pager nodes) can have translated counter parts. See [Multilingual]({{< relref "content/multilingual.md" >}}) for more info. <br>
[Taxonomy Terms](/templates/terms/) pages are of the type "node" and have the following **additional** variables. These are available in `layouts/_defaults/terms.html` for example.
The **.Site.Taxonomies** variable holds all taxonomies defines site-wide. It is a map of the taxonomy name to a list of its values. For example: "tags" -> ["tag1", "tag2", "tag3"]. Each value, though, is not a string but rather a [Taxonomy variable](#the-taxonomy-variable).
#### The Taxonomy variable
The Taxonomy variable, available as **.Site.Taxonomies.tags** for example, contains the list of tags (values) and, for each of those, their corresponding content pages.
**.Site.Taxonomies** The [taxonomies](/taxonomies/usage/) for the entire site. Replaces the now-obsolete `.Site.Indexes` since v0.11. Also see section [Taxonomies elsewhere](#taxonomies-elsewhere).<br>
**.Site.Pages** Array of all content ordered by Date, newest first. Replaces the now-deprecated `.Site.Recent` starting v0.13. This array contains only the pages in the current language.<br>
**.Site.AllPages** Array of all pages regardless of their translation.<br>
**.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.<br>
**.Site.Files** All of the source files of the site.<br>
**.Site.Menus** All of the menus in the site.<br>
**.Site.Title** A string representing the title of the site.<br>
**.Site.Authors** An ordered list (ordered by defined weight) of the authors as defined in the site configuration. Have a look at [acessible attributes](#author-variables).<br>
**.Site.LanguageCode** A string representing the language as defined in the site configuration. This is mostly used to populate the RSS feeds with the right language code.<br>
**.Site.LastChange** A string representing the date/time of the most recent change to your site, based on the [`date` variable]({{< ref "content/front-matter.md#required-variables" >}}) in the front matter of your content pages.<br>
**.Site.IsMultiLingual** Whether there are more than one language in this site.<br> See [Multilingual]({{< relref "content/multilingual.md" >}}) for more info.<br>
**.Site.Language** This indicates which language you are currently rendering the website for. This is an object with the attributes set in your language definition in your site config.<br>
**.Site.Language.Lang** The language code of the current locale, e.g. `en`.<br>
**.Site.Language.Weight** The weight that defines the order in the `.Site.Languages` list.<br>
**.Site.Language.LanguageName** The full language name, e.g. `English`.<br>
**.Site.LanguagePrefix** This can be used to prefix theURLs with whats needed to point to the correct language. It will even work when only one language defined. See also the functions [absLangURL and relLangURL]({{< relref "templates/functions.md#abslangurl-rellangurl" >}}).<br>
**.Site.Languages** An ordered list (ordered by defined weight) of languages.<br>
This variables are used for the author profiles feature. You can find a more in-depth explaination with examples [here]({{< relref "extras/authors.md" >}}).
The `authors` frontmatter variable represents a list of author identifiers. Those identifiers are used to match their corresponding profiles. `.Author` contains the profile associated with the first identifiers in the list.
**.Author.ID** The identifier of an author (a.k.a. the filename of his/her profile)<br>
**.Author.GivenName** or **.Author.FirstName** The author's first name, e.g. Charles<br>
**.Author.FamilyName** or **.Author.LastName** The author's last name, e.g. Dickens<br>
**.Author.DisplayName** The author's full name, e.g. Charles Dickens<br>
**.Author.Thumbnail** A link to a thumbnail of the author. Maybe the relative path to an image in the `static` folder<br>
**.Author.Image** A larger image of the author. Can be stored in the `static` folder as well.<br>
**.Author.Bio** A biography with background information about the author<br>
**.Author.ShortBio** A summarized version of the biography<br>
**.Author.Email** The email of the author<br>
**.Author.Weight** The associated weight of an author. Defines the order of authors in the `.Authors` list (except on pages due to the frontmatter)<br>
**.Author.Social** A container holding the values from the `social` section of the author's profile. For example, a TOML profile (excerpt) might look like this:
[social]
facebook = "charles.dickens"
twitter = "charlesdickens"
**.Author.Params** A container holding the values from the `params` section of the author's file. The values can be arbitrary and depend on the profile. For example, a TOML profile (excerpt) might look like this:
[params]
random = "whatever you want"
**.Author.Social.URL** Takes a social network as argument (as string) and generates the link the account automatically. A list of supported social networks and a template can be found [here]({{< relref "extras/authors.md#linking-social-network-accounts-automatically" >}}).
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`.Authors` (**note the plural form**) is a list of all author profiles that are mentioned in the `authors` frontmatter variable.
**.Authors.Get** Takes the identifier of an author as argument (as string) and returns an `.Author` object.
**.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 the usage and popularity of Hugo. Unlike other variables it outputs a **complete** HTML tag, e.g. `<meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.15" />`<br>
