Content view templates
These alternative content views are especially useful in list templates.
The following are common use cases for content views:
- You want content of every type to be shown on the homepage but only with limited summary views.
- You only want a bulleted list of your content on a taxonomy list page. Views make this very straightforward by delegating the rendering of each different type of content to the content itself.
Create a content view
To create a new view, create a template in each of your different content type directories with the view name. The following example contains an “li” view and a “summary” view for the posts
and project
content types. As you can see, these sit next to the single content view template, single.html
. You can even provide a specific view for a given type and continue to use the _default/single.html
for the primary view.
▾ layouts/
▾ posts/
li.html
single.html
summary.html
▾ project/
li.html
single.html
summary.html
Hugo also has support for a default content template to be used in the event that a specific content view template has not been provided for that type. Content views can also be defined in the _default
directory and will work the same as list and single templates who eventually trickle down to the _default
directory as a matter of the lookup order.
▾ layouts/
▾ _default/
li.html
single.html
summary.html
Which template will be rendered?
The following is the lookup order for content views:
/layouts/<TYPE>/<VIEW>.html
/layouts/_default/<VIEW>.html
/themes/<THEME>/layouts/<TYPE>/<VIEW>.html
/themes/<THEME>/layouts/_default/<VIEW>.html
Example: content view inside a list
The following example demonstrates how to use content views inside your list templates.
list.html
In this example, .Render
is passed into the template to call the render function. .Render
is a special function that instructs content to render itself with the view template provided as the first argument. In this case, the template is going to render the summary.html
view that follows:
<main id="main">
<div>
<h1 id="title">{{ .Title }}</h1>
{{ range .Pages }}
{{ .Render "summary" }}
{{ end }}
</div>
</main>
summary.html
Hugo will pass the entire page object to the following summary.html
view template. (See Page Variables for a complete list.)
<article class="post">
<header>
<h2><a href='{{ .Permalink }}'> {{ .Title }}</a> </h2>
<div class="post-meta">{{ .Date.Format "Mon, Jan 2, 2006" }} - {{ .FuzzyWordCount }} Words </div>
</header>
{{ .Summary }}
<footer>
<a href='{{ .Permalink }}'><nobr>Read more →</nobr></a>
</footer>
</article>
li.html
Continuing on the previous example, we can change our render function to use a smaller li.html
view by changing the argument in the call to the .Render
function (i.e., {{ .Render "li" }}
).
<li>
<a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a>
<div class="meta">{{ .Date.Format "Mon, Jan 2, 2006" }}</div>
</li>