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title: "Front Matter" Pubdate: "2013-07-01" ...
The front matter is one of the features that gives Hugo it's strength. It enables you to include the meta data of the content right with it. Hugo supports a few different formats. The main format supported is YAML. Here is an example:
---
Title: "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website"
Description: "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim."
Tags: [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ]
Pubdate: "2012-04-06"
Categories:
- "Development"
- "VIM"
Slug: "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website"
...
Variables
There are a few predefined variables that Hugo is aware of and utilizes. The user can also create
any variable they want to. These will be placed into the .Params variable available to the templates.
Required
Title The title for the content.
Description The description for the content.
Pubdate The date the content will be sorted by.
Indexes These will use the field name of the plural form of the index (see tags and categories above)
Optional
Draft If true the content will not be rendered unless hugo is called with -d
Type The type of the content (will be derived from the directory automatically if unset).
Markup (Experimental) Specify "rst" for reStructuredText (requires
rst2html,) or "md" (default) for the Markdown.
Slug The token to appear in the tail of the url.
or
Url The full path to the content from the web root.
If neither is present the filename will be used.