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title: "Shortcodes"
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Pubdate: "2013-07-01"
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---
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Because Hugo uses markdown for it's content format, it was clear that there's a lot of things that
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markdown doesn't support well. This is good, the simple nature of markdown is exactly why we chose it.
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However we cannot accept being constrained by our simple format. Also unacceptable is writing raw
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html in our markdown every time we want to include unsupported content such as a video. To do
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so is in complete opposition to the intent of using a bare bones format for our content and
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utilizing templates to apply styling for display.
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To avoid both of these limitations Hugo has full support for shortcodes.
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### What is a shortcode?
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A shortcode is a simple snippet inside a markdown file that Hugo will render using a template.
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Short codes are designated by the opening and closing characters of '{{%' and '%}}' respectively.
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Short codes are space delimited. The first word is always the name of the shortcode. Following the
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name are the parameters. The author of the shortcode can choose if the short code
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will use positional parameters or named parameters (but not both). A good rule of thumb is that if a
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short code has a single required value in the case of the youtube example below then positional
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works very well. For more complex layouts with optional parameters named parameters work best.
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The format for named parameters models that of html with the format name="value"
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### Example: youtube
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*Example has an extra space so Hugo doesn't actually render it*
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{{ % youtube 09jf3ow9jfw %}}
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This would be rendered as
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<div class="embed video-player">
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<iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html"
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width="640" height="385"
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src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/09jf3ow9jfw"
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allowfullscreen frameborder="0">
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</iframe>
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</div>
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### Example: image with caption
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*Example has an extra space so Hugo doesn't actually render it*
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{{ % img src="/media/spf13.jpg" title="Steve Francia" %}}
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Would be rendered as:
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<figure >
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<img src="/media/spf13.jpg" />
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<figcaption>
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<h4>Steve Francia</h4>
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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### Creating a shortcode
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All that you need to do to create a shortcode is place a template in the layouts/shortcodes directory.
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The template name will be the name of the shortcode.
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**Inside the template**
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To access a parameter by either position or name the index method can be used.
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{{ index .Params 0 }}
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or
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{{ index .Params "class" }}
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To check if a parameter has been provided use the isset method provided by Hugo.
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{{ if isset .Params "class"}} class="{{ index .Params "class"}}" {{ end }}
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