Variables

ToC

• Site Variables
• Page Variables

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Site Variables under Params

name	type	example	Description
env	string	'production'	To set env to production
title	string	'My Blog'	To set title
description	string	'This is a blog of mine'	To set site description
author	string |list	'Me' | ['Me','You']	To show multiple Authors
images	string	'myimage.png'	Link or path of image for opengraph, twitter-cards
keywords	list	[blog, page]	Add keywords for Home page
DateFormat	string	"January 2, 2006"	The format of date strings in the website. Details
languageAltTitle	string	"English"	Alternate title in Multilingual Mode
ShowReadingTime	boolean	true | false	To show read time in post meta
ShowShareButtons	boolean	true | false	To show/hide share buttons under post
ShowCodeCopyButtons	boolean	true | false	To show/hide Code Copy button
ShowFullTextinRSS	boolean	true | false	To show Content in RSS feed
defaultTheme	string	light | dark | auto	To set default theme
disableThemeToggle	boolean	true | false	To disable theme toggle icon shown besides label
disableSpecial1stPost	boolean	true | false	To disable no-card special appearance of 1st post
disableScrollToTop	boolean	true | false	To disable ScrollToTop button
disableAnchoredHeadings	boolean	true | false	To disable Anchored Headings
hideMeta	boolean	true | false	To Hide meta elements : date, read-time, author and available-translations for page
hideSummary	boolean	true | false	To Hide summary being shown in list pages
showtoc	boolean	true | false	To show/hide Table of Contents
tocopen	boolean	true | false	To keep open ToC by default on page load
ShowPostNavLinks	boolean	true | false	Show Previous and Next Posts below a Post
ShowBreadCrumbs	boolean	true | false	Show BreadCrumb Navigation above single post/page
ShareButtons	list	["linkedin", "x"]	To customize which share buttons to be enabled on page
ShowWordCount	boolean	true | false	To word count to metadata
ShowRssButtonInSectionTermList	boolean	true | false	To show RSS icon in Section, Term and List pages
UseHugoToc	boolean	true | false	To use Hugo's default Toc instead of custom
comments	boolean	true | false	To show/hide comments
hideFooter	boolean	true | false	To Hide Footer Text om the end of page
CanonicalLinkText	string	'Originally published at'	To show text before canonical URL's hostname
displayFullLangName	boolean	true | false	To show languageName under a language in Language switch header
analytics.google.SiteVerificationTag	string	"XYZabc"	Site Verification Tag for Google Analytics
analytics.bing.SiteVerificationTag	string	"XYZabc"	Site Verification Tag for Bing
analytics.yandex.SiteVerificationTag	string	"XYZabc"	Site Verification Tag for Yandex
schema	-	-	Details
fuseOpts	-	-	Details
socialIcons	-	-	Details
label	-	-	Details
assets	-	-	Details
cover	-	-	Details
profileMode	-	-	Details
editPost	-	-	Details

Site Variables

name	type	example	Description
copyright	string	**[example.site](https://example.site)**	This is HUGO's site variable, which can also render markdown content

label

name	type	example	Description
label.text	string	'Home'	To display different label text other than title
label.icon	string	'/apple-touch-icon.png'	To display a logo image in label
label.iconHeight	integer	35	To set size of label logo image

profileMode

name	type	example	Description
profileMode.enabled	boolean	true | false	For enabling profileMode, needs to be explicitly set
profileMode.title	string	"Title"	Title
profileMode.subtitle	string	"subtitle here"	Subtitle
profileMode.imageUrl	string	"image.png" | "https://example.com/image.jpg"	Image URL or Link
profileMode.imageWidth	string	"150"	Width of image
profileMode.imageHeight	string	"150"	Height of image
profileMode.imageTitle	string	"This image is a picture of .."	Title of image
profileMode.buttons	-	-	Details

profileMode.buttons

profileMode:
  buttons:
    - name: Archive
      url: "/archive"
    - name: Github
      url: "https://github.com/"

assets

name	type	example	Description
assets.favicon	string	'icon.ico'	To set favicon, can be path or external link
assets.disableFingerprinting	boolean	true | false	To disable Sub-Resource integrity for assets
assets.theme_color	string	'#color'	To set custom meta theme-color
assets.msapplication_TileColor	string	'#color'	To set custom msapplication_TileColor

cover

name	type	example	Description
cover.linkFullImages	boolean	true | false	To open full size cover images on click on cover
cover.responsiveImages	boolean	true | false	To enable/disable generation of responsive cover images
cover.hidden	boolean	true | false	To hide everywhere but not in structured data
cover.hiddenInList	boolean	true | false	To hide on list pages and home
cover.hiddenInSingle	boolean	true | false	To hide on list pages and home

schema

name	type	example	Description
schema.publisherType	string	'Organization'	https://schema.org/publisher
schema.sameAs	list	["URL1", "URL2"]	Set https://schema.org/sameAs

fuseOpts

Refer: https://fusejs.io/api/options.html

fuseOpts:
  isCaseSensitive: false
  shouldSort: true
  location: 0
  distance: 1000
  threshold: 0.4
  minMatchCharLength: 0
  limit: 10 # refer: https://www.fusejs.io/api/methods.html#search
  keys: ["title", "permalink", "summary", "content"] ##  can be less but not more than shown in list

socialIcons

socialIcons:
  - name: "<platform>"
    url: "<link>"
  - name: "<platform 2>"
    url: "<link2>"

editPost

editPost:
  URL: "https://github.com/<path_to_repo>/content"
  Text: "Suggest Changes" # edit text
  appendFilePath: true # to append file path to Edit link

Note: Same format is being used by Page Variables

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Page Variables

Name	Type	Example	Description
showtoc	boolean	true | false	To show/hide Table of Contents
tocopen	boolean	true | false	To keep open ToC by default on page load
hidemeta	boolean	true | false	To Hide meta elements : date, read-time, author and available-translations for page
comments	boolean	true | false	To show/hide comments
description	string	'description text'	Show Post Description under Title
canonicalURL	string	"https://canonical.url/to/page"	To add canonical URL to posts
ShowCanonicalLink	boolean	true | false	To show canonical URL's hostname
CanonicalLinkText	string	'Originally published at'	To show text before canonical URL's hostname
disableShare	boolean	true | false	To hide/show share icons under a page
disableAnchoredHeadings	boolean	true | false	To disable Anchored Headings
searchHidden	boolean	true | false	Hide page from search
hideSummary	boolean	true | false	To Hide summary being shown in list pages
hideFooter	boolean	true | false	To Hide Footer Text om the end of page
ShowReadingTime	boolean	true | false	To show read time in post meta
ShowBreadCrumbs	boolean	true | false	Show BreadCrumb Navigation above single post/page
ShowPostNavLinks	boolean	true | false	Show Previous and Next Posts below a Post
ShowCodeCopyButtons	boolean	true | false	To show/hide Code Copy button
author	string |list	'Me' | ['Me','You']	To show multiple Authors
cover.image	string	'featured.jpg'	To add a cover image
cover.caption	string	'caption for image'	To add caption to cover image
cover.alt	string	'this is cover image'	Alternate text to show if image doesn't load/show up
cover.relative	boolean	true | false	To use relative path for cover image, used in hugo Page-bundles
cover.responsiveImages	boolean	true | false	To enable/disable generation of responsive cover images
cover.hidden	boolean	true | false	To hide on current single page
weight	integer	5	To set page order or to pin a post to Top of list
ShareButtons	list	["linkedin", "x"]	To customize which share buttons to be enabled on page
ShowWordCount	boolean	true | false	To word count to metadata
ShowRssButtonInSectionTermList	boolean	true | false	To show RSS icon in Section, Term and List pages
UseHugoToc	boolean	true | false	To use Hugo's default Toc instead of custom
robotsNoIndex	boolean	true | false	To hide a particular page from indexing by search engines