Firstpost

Front matter - meta data about this piece of data

• key-value pairs that gives us information about this file

• can be written in three languages: yaml, toml, json

• default language for front matter is yaml

• What does a toml-style front matter look like?

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    +++ title = "FirstPost" date = YYYY-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss draft = true +++

  • versus a yaml-style front matter

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    --- title: "firstPost" date: YYYY-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss draft: true ---

• Create custom front matter such as

  • author: "Aurora"

To embed a video

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{{＜ shortcode-name param1 ＞}}

• Instead of copying a bunch of iframe html code, you can add youtube video by calling short-code

  

Taxonomy

how we group content together

• Two common default taxonomies - tag, category

• List page of tag would be automatically generated by Hugo

• Third (and not default) taxonomy moods

  • Add [taxonomies] to config.toml