Variables and parameters
Hugo’s templates are context aware and make a large number of values available to you as you’re creating views for your website.
Site variables
Many, but not all, site-wide variables are defined in your site’s configuration. However, Hugo provides a number of built-in variables for convenient access to global values in your templates.
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Page variables
Page-level variables are defined in a content file’s front matter, derived from the content’s file location, or extracted from the content body itself.
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Shortcode variables
Shortcodes can access page variables and also have their own specific built-in variables.
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Pages methods
Pages is the core page collection in Hugo and has many useful methods.
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Taxonomy variables
Hugo’s taxonomy system exposes variables to taxonomy and term templates.
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File variables
Use File variables to access file-related values for each page that is backed by a file.
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Menu variables
Use these variables and methods in your menu templates.
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Git variables
Get the last Git revision information for every content file.
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Sitemap variables
A sitemap is a Page and therefore has all the page variables available to use sitemap templates. They also have the following sitemap-specific variables available to them:
.Sitemap.ChangeFreq the page change frequency .Sitemap.Priority the priority of the page .Sitemap.Filename the sitemap file name
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