RenderShortcodes

Use this method in shortcode templates to compose a page from multiple content files, while preserving a global context for footnotes and the table of contents.

For example:

{{ with .Get 0 }}
  {{ with $.Page.GetPage . }}
    {{- .RenderShortcodes }}
  {{ else }}
    {{ errorf "The %q shortcode was unable to find %q. See %s" $.Name . $.Position }}
  {{ end }}
{{ else }}
  {{ errorf "The %q shortcode requires a positional parameter indicating the logical path of the file to include. See %s" .Name .Position }}
{{ end }}

Then call the shortcode in your Markdown:

{{% include "/snippets/services" %}}
{{% include "/snippets/values" %}}
{{% include "/snippets/leadership" %}}

Each of the included Markdown files can contain calls to other shortcodes.

Shortcode notation

In the example above it’s important to understand the difference between the two delimiters used when calling a shortcode:

• {{< myshortcode >}} tells Hugo that the rendered shortcode does not need further processing. For example, the shortcode content is HTML.
• {{% myshortcode %}} tells Hugo that the rendered shortcode needs further processing. For example, the shortcode content is Markdown.

Use the latter for the “include” shortcode described above.

Further explanation

To understand what is returned by the RenderShortcodes method, consider this content file

+++
title = 'About'
date = 2023-10-07T12:28:33-07:00
+++

{{< ref "privacy" >}}

An *emphasized* word.

With this template code:

{{ $p := site.GetPage "/about" }}
{{ $p.RenderShortcodes }}

Hugo renders this:;

https://example.org/privacy/

An *emphasized* word.

Note that the shortcode within the content file was rendered, but the surrounding Markdown was preserved.

Limitations

The primary use case for .RenderShortcodes is inclusion of Markdown content. If you try to use .RenderShortcodes inside HTML blocks when inside Markdown, you will get a warning similar to this:

WARN .RenderShortcodes detected inside HTML block in "/content/mypost.md"; this may not be what you intended ...

The above warning can be turned off is this is what you really want.