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---
title: Section Page Templates
linktitle: Section Templates
description: Templates used for section pages are **lists** and therefore have all the variables and methods available to list pages.
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [templates]
keywords: [lists,sections,templates]
menu:
docs:
parent: "templates"
weight: 40
weight: 40
sections_weight: 40
draft: false
aliases: [/templates/sections/]
toc: true
---
## Add Content and Front Matter to Section Templates
To effectively leverage section page templates, you should first understand Hugo's [content organization](/content-management/organization/) and, specifically, the purpose of `_index.md` for adding content and front matter to section and other list pages.
## Section Template Lookup Order
See [Template Lookup](/templates/lookup-order/).
## Page Kinds
Every `Page` in Hugo has a `.Kind` attribute.
| Kind | Description | Example |
|----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `home` | The home page | `/index.html` |
| `page` | A page showing a _regular page_ | `my-post` page (`/posts/my-post/index.html`) |
| `section` | A page listing _regular pages_ from a given [_section_][sections] | `posts` section (`/posts/index.html`) |
| `taxonomy` | A page listing _regular pages_ from a given _taxonomy term_ | page for the term `awesome` from `tags` taxonomy (`/tags/awesome/index.html`) |
| `taxonomyTerm` | A page listing terms from a given _taxonomy_ | page for the `tags` taxonomy (`/tags/index.html`) |
## `.Site.GetPage` with Sections
`Kind` can easily be combined with the [`where` function][where] in your templates to create kind-specific lists of content. This method is ideal for creating lists, but there are times where you may want to fetch just the index page of a single section via the section's path.
The [`.GetPage` function][getpage] looks up an index page of a given `Kind` and `path`.
You can call `.Site.GetPage` with two arguments: `kind` (one of the valid values
of `Kind` from above) and `kind value`.
Examples:
- `{{ .Site.GetPage "section" "posts" }}`
- `{{ .Site.GetPage "page" "search" }}`
## Example: Creating a Default Section Template
{{< code file="layouts/_default/section.html" download="section.html" >}}
{{ define "main" }}
<main>
{{ .Content }}
<ul class="contents">
{{ range .Paginator.Pages }}
<li>{{.Title}}
<div>
{{ partial "summary.html" . }}
</div>
</li>
{{ end }}
</ul>
{{ partial "pagination.html" . }}
</main>
{{ end }}
{{< /code >}}
### Example: Using `.Site.GetPage`
The `.Site.GetPage` example that follows assumes the following project directory structure:
```
.
└── content
├── blog
│   ├── _index.md # "title: My Hugo Blog" in the front matter
│   ├── post-1.md
│   ├── post-2.md
│   └── post-3.md
└── events #Note there is no _index.md file in "events"
├── event-1.md
└── event-2.md
```
`.Site.GetPage` will return `nil` if no `_index.md` page is found. Therefore, if `content/blog/_index.md` does not exist, the template will output the section name:
```
<h1>{{ with .Site.GetPage "section" "blog" }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}</h1>
```
Since `blog` has a section index page with front matter at `content/blog/_index.md`, the above code will return the following result:
```
<h1>My Hugo Blog</h1>
```
If we try the same code with the `events` section, however, Hugo will default to the section title because there is no `content/events/_index.md` from which to pull content and front matter:
```
<h1>{{ with .Site.GetPage "section" "events" }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}</h1>
```
Which then returns the following:
```
<h1>Events</h1>
```
[contentorg]: /content-management/organization/
[getpage]: /functions/getpage/
[lists]: /templates/lists/
[lookup]: /templates/lookup-order/
[where]: /functions/where/
[sections]: /content-management/sections/