Single Page Templates |Hugo

The primary view of content in Hugo is the single view. Hugo will render every Markdown file provided with a corresponding single template.

Single Page Template Lookup Order

See Template Lookup .

Example Single Page Templates

Content pages are of the type page and will therefore have all the page variables and site variables available to use in their templates.

`posts/single.html`

This single page template makes use of Hugo base templates , the .Format function for dates, the .WordCount page variable , and ranges through the single content’s specific taxonomies . with is also used to check whether the taxonomies are set in the front matter.

layouts/posts/single.html


{{ define "main" }}
<section id="main">
  <h1 id="title">{{ .Title }}</h1>
  <div>
        <article id="content">
           {{ .Content }}
        </article>
  </div>
</section>
<aside id="meta">
    <div>
    <section>
      <h4 id="date"> {{ .Date.Format "Mon Jan 2, 2006" }} </h4>
      <h5 id="wordcount"> {{ .WordCount }} Words </h5>
    </section>
    {{ with .Params.topics }}
    <ul id="topics">
      {{ range . }}
        <li><a href="{{ "topics" | absURL}}{{ . | urlize }}">{{ . }}</a> </li>
      {{ end }}
    </ul>
    {{ end }}
    {{ with .Params.tags }}
    <ul id="tags">
      {{ range . }}
        <li> <a href="{{ "tags" | absURL }}{{ . | urlize }}">{{ . }}</a> </li>
      {{ end }}
    </ul>
    {{ end }}
    </div>
    <div>
        {{ with .PrevInSection }}
          <a class="previous" href="{{.Permalink}}"> {{.Title}}</a>
        {{ end }}
        {{ with .NextInSection }}
          <a class="next" href="{{.Permalink}}"> {{.Title}}</a>
        {{ end }}
    </div>
</aside>
{{ end }}

To easily generate new instances of a content type (e.g., new .md files in a section like project/) with preconfigured front matter, use content archetypes .