Introduction

Create templates to render your content, resources, and data.

Template types

Create templates of different types to render your content, resources, and data.

Lookup order

Hugo uses the rules below to select a template for a given page, starting from the most specific.

Base templates

The base and block construct allows you to define the outer shell of your master templates (i.e., the chrome of the page).

Home page templates

The home page of a website is often formatted differently than the other pages. For this reason, Hugo makes it easy for you to define your new site's home page as a unique template.

Single templates

Create a single template to render a single page.

Section templates

Create a section template to list its members.

Taxonomy templates

Create a taxonomy template to render a list of terms.

Term templates

Create a term template to render a list of pages associated with the current term.

Partial templates

Partials are smaller, context-aware components in your list and page templates that can be used economically to keep your templating DRY.

Content view templates

Hugo can render alternative views of your content, useful in list and summary views.

Shortcode templates

Create custom shortcodes to simplify and standardize content creation.

Sitemap templates

Hugo provides built-in sitemap templates.

RSS templates

Use the embedded RSS template, or create your own.

404 templates

Create a template to render a 404 error page.

robots.txt templates

Hugo can generate a customized robots.txt in the same way as any other template.

Menus

Create templates to render one or more menus.

Pagination

Split a list page into two or more subsets.

Embedded templates

Hugo provides embedded templates for common use cases.

Custom output formats

Hugo can output content in multiple formats, including calendar events, e-book formats, Google AMP, and JSON search indexes, or any custom text format.