--- aliases: - /doc/variables/ - /layout/variables/ date: 2013-07-01 linktitle: Variables menu: main: parent: layout next: /templates/content prev: /templates/functions title: Template Variables weight: 20 --- Hugo makes a set of values available to the templates. Go templates are context based. The following are available in the context for the templates. ## Page Variables The following is a list of most of the accessible variables which can be defined for a piece of content. Many of these will be defined in the front matter, content or derived from file location. **.Title** The title for the content.
**.Content** The content itself, defined below the front matter.
**.Summary** A generated summary of the content for easily showing a snippet in a summary view.
**.Description** The description for the content.
**.Keywords** The meta keywords for this content.
**.Date** The date the content is associated with.
**.PublishDate** The date the content is published on.
**.Type** The content [type](/content/types/) (eg. post)
**.Section** The [section](/content/sections/) this content belongs to
**.Permalink** The Permanent link for this page.
**.RelPermalink** The Relative permanent link for this page.
**.LinkTitle** Access when creating links to this content. Will use linktitle if set in front-matter, else title
**.Indexes** These will use the field name of the plural form of the index (see tags and categories above)
**.RSSLink** Link to the indexes' rss link
**.TableOfContents** The rendered table of contents for this content
**.Prev** Pointer to the previous content (based on pub date)
**.Next** Pointer to the following content (based on pub date)
**.FuzzyWordCount** The approximate number of words in the content.
**.WordCount** The number of words in the content.
**.ReadingTime** The estimated time it takes to read the content in minutes.
**.Weight** Assigned weight (in the front matter) to this content, used in sorting.
**.Site** See site variables below
## Page Params Any other value defined in the front matter, including indexes will be made available under `.Params`. Take for example I'm using tags and categories as my indexes. The following would be how I would access them: **.Params.tags**
**.Params.categories**

**All Params are only accessible using all lowercase characters**
## Node Variables In Hugo a node is any page not rendered directly by a content file. This includes indexes, lists and the homepage. **.Title** The title for the content.
**.Date** The date the content is published on.
**.Permalink** The Permanent link for this node
**.Url** The relative url for this node.
**.RSSLink** Link to the indexes' rss link
**.Data** The data specific to this type of node.
**.Site** See site variables below
## Site Variables Also available is `.Site` which has the following: **.Site.BaseUrl** The base URL for the site as defined in the config.json file.
**.Site.Indexes** The indexes for the entire site.
**.Site.LastChange** The date of the last change of the most recent content.
**.Site.Recent** Array of all content ordered by Date, newest first.
**.Site.Params** A container holding the values from `params` in your site configuration file.